Apparently, Bud Selig Reads This Site...

...Because the news today is that baseball is expanding instant replay in 2013, just days after I wrote this. The plan isn't identical to the one I proposed-there's going to be a central room with a team of umpires reviewing every game rather than an extra ump in each stadium-but it still gets the job done. It was about time. As a reward, I will create my own blue-ribbon panel to look into congratulating Bud Selig sometime, possibly in the future