Only in baseball could an innovation as ingrained and time-tested as instant replay be considered an unnecessary intrusion on – OK, cue the string quartet here – the beloved "human element."
Well, who among us doesn't love humans – and every one of their elements? But please – someone, anyone – it's time to admit that all of us humans can use help now and then.
And in our whole lifetimes, it's hard to think of anything that could be more helpful to baseball and its 100-percent-human umpires than the miracle of videotape.