Mets first no-hitter in their history

[can you hear me now!]

congrats to Johann Santana on tossing the first no hitter in Met's history...

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/met...-8-cardinals-0

could be a banner year for no-no's this year......

[gps29070]

As Mel Allen would say "how about that!"

[johnpolitics]

No roids = No hitters.

[bmore_ken]

Hard to believe it's their first when they had Seaver for all those years

[hector]

Hard to believe it's their first when they had Seaver for all those years

They also had Nolan Ryan for the first five years of his major league career.

[HAIL2BNG]

Congrats to the Mets on their first tainted no-hitter.

Baseball needs replay.

[Ravens2006]

Baseball definitely needs to expand the use of replay. Of course, had the bad call gone the other way... say a FOUL ball had incorrectly been ruled FAIR, and it cost the New York / marquee team a no-hitter... all the headlines today would be about the bad call and the analysis would be focusing on replay.

That was an easy, easy call to make on replay. Could have been done in 30 seconds at most. Frankly, it should have been made correctly live. It hit plenty of white chalk behind the 3rd base bag. At worst, replay gives him 1st base.

[bmore_ken]

I've never seen a 30 second review of a replay in the NFL, just sayin'

[Grindelwald]

Umpiring strikes again!

[HAIL2BNG]

I've never seen a 30 second review of a replay in the NFL, just sayin'

The NFL's system is wrong too. They all need to adopt a system similar to the NHL where they have a centralized place where other refs review the play and give a ruling. There is no reason why the umps need to leave the field or the ref needs to go under the hood in football.

[Ravens2006]

I've never seen a 30 second review of a replay in the NFL, just sayin'

The NFL's system is incredibly inefficient. And we sort of did see that in the AFC title game last year. After the game when questioned why they didn't stop play to review the Evans no-catch a little closer... the league said they looked at it upstairs between plays and saw nothing that warranted a stoppage. So yes... they DID review it in about 30 seconds.

The Mets broadcast had a slo-mo, crystal clear shot of the ball hitting the white line within seconds of it happening. It can be done, but none of these leagues have the will to implement it.

[bmore_ken]

The NFL's system is incredibly inefficient. And we sort of did see that in the AFC title game last year. After the game when questioned why they didn't stop play to review the Evans no-catch a little closer... the league said they looked at it upstairs between plays and saw nothing that warranted a stoppage. So yes... they DID review it in about 30 seconds.The Mets broadcast had a slo-mo, crystal clear shot of the ball hitting the white line within seconds of it happening. It can be done, but none of these leagues have the will to implement it.

That's not an official review. That's a review to determine if there should be an official review. Of course that takes less time. What OFFICIAL NFL review have you seen done in 30 seconds? it's more than 30 seconds from the time the coach throws the red flag to when the official announces the play is being challenged and that's before the actual review

[crabsnbeer]

congrats to Johann Santana on tossing the first no hitter in Met's history...

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/met...-8-cardinals-0

could be a banner year for no-no's this year......

If I had to root for an NYC team it would be the Mets.

[Ravens2006]

That's not an official review. That's a review to determine if there should be an official review. Of course that takes less time. What OFFICIAL NFL review have you seen done in 30 seconds? it's more than 30 seconds from the time the coach throws the red flag to when the official announces the play is being challenged and that's before the actual review

That's why I said the system, as it is, is incredibly inefficient. There shouldn't be a "throw your flag" challenge system, at least not in the fashion it's currently done. But that's for a different forum. My point is that they reviewed the play and made a decision that it was a good call before the next play was run and with no impact to the flow of the game.

Replay doesn't have to be that time-consuming and it doesn't have to disrupt the flow of the game. The broadcast showed the first slo-mo of the ball hitting the line 16 seconds after the line play, and a second, crystal clear slo-mo of the ball hitting the line 19 seconds after the play. Keep in mind that this also includes some delay for folks in the production room to review & edit it before putting it on air for everyone else to see.

19 seconds max. And it was obvious. No question at all.

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlb

There's no reason why someone couldn't buzz down to the head ump at that point, stop play, and pass along the correction. But they'd rather not embarrass the umps during the game in front of a live audience... they'd rather ignore the issue and gloss over a huge mistake.

[ivanbalt]

That's not an official review. That's a review to determine if there should be an official review. Of course that takes less time. What OFFICIAL NFL review have you seen done in 30 seconds? it's more than 30 seconds from the time the coach throws the red flag to when the official announces the play is being challenged and that's before the actual review

Even the most obvious calls still seem to take 10 minutes during an NFL challenge.