Dusty Baker Defends Umpires Amid Calls for Expanded Instant Replay

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CINCINNATI -- Curious to hear informed thoughts on baseball's media-driven drama of the moment, West Coast Bias sought out a California sage on Saturday

Does Dusty Baker favor a move to expanded use of replay?

It appears not. One day after two key calls went against his sloppy Reds, who erred far worse than the umpires in losing to the Phillies on Friday, Baker defended the men in blue.

"That's a job I wouldn't want -- because you are only scrutinized when things aren't right," said Baker, whose team has lost both games of the best-of-five series.

Baker jokingly came up with a way to help the umpires.

"The only way to make an improvement is, you've got to get them some slow-mo glasses," he said. "You give them some slow-motion glasses, then they might see the same things that you (sportswriters) see, and the same thing everyone sees on TV.

"It doesn't work like that, so you have to leave the human element in there I believe to some degree. Or else we wouldn't have nothing to talk about."

 

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