Baseball still missing call on instant replay

0 Comments | USA TODAY, May, 2008 | by Christine Brennan

The words "instant replay" are to Major League Baseball today what the words "performance-enhancing drugs" were 10 years ago: a trend to run away from, an issue to avoid at all costs.

But, in recent weeks, when not one, not two, not three, but four high-profile mistakes were made by umpires in big-league games, baseball slowly has begun addressing a topic that we can only hope will end with its acceptance of the inevitable, that 21st-century technology can make the game better, not worse.

It was way back in 1990, 18 years ago now, when legendary Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula said the single smartest thing anyone has ever uttered about instant replay: "If people sitting in their living rooms can see a play is called incorrectly, then we should be able to see...