I do not like instant replay in baseball. It slows the game, takes out the fun and solves nothing. 49.2% of the calls reviewed in 2015 were overturned. So why bother?. They were still wrong half the time. It was more fun, and far more American to watch Billy Martin rant and rave and kick dirt on the umpires feet before getting thrown out of the game. THAT was baseball, my friend.
Old Billy died on Christmas day, 1989, and his epitaph reads,” I may not have been the greatest Yankee to put on the uniform, but I was the proudest.
Baseball is not what it used to be. Could be that the game has just changed too much.
Thinking out loud, I have decided life is not what it used to be either. Today nobody is wrong, everyone yells at the other guy, the rules don’t matter, and instant replay seems to bring up calls from our childhood. We used to make a mistake, say ‘I’m sorry’, and move on, later laughing over the matter as we joyfully slapped one another on the back. Not now.
Life is not what it used to be. Could be that the game has just changed too much.
But I know that on the other side of the river we will play the game again, complete with instant replay, I suppose.
But that won’t be all that bad. Under the rules of the eternal day, I will be a winner. Some things, however, will not change, I am sure.
As I stand before the Great Umpire in Gloryland, my life will pass before us on a jumbotron with instant replay. I can see the scene before me now.
But, I will not be kicking dust in His feet and yelling at the one who made the call. I will be on my knees begging forgiveness instead.
And I will not get kicked out of the game for my actions, but rather welcomed back into the club house forever.
And I will not get traded to the opposing team, for I have an eternal, lifelong, contract that can’t be broken.
I know that up in heaven the golf courses will have no water hazards or sand traps, and the ball parks will all have a Billy Martin
And, though I may not be the greatest Christian to play the game of life, I will be the proudest
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