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On social media, that oasis of calm and rationality, plate umpire Tony Randazzo was getting mauled for his strike zone during Game 5 of the Cubs stirring 3-2 win that saved their season and bought them yet another elimination game, Tuesday night in Cleveland. Randazzo was no better or worse than most umpires, but the circumstances for officiating in all sports these days doesnt exactly qualify as normal.Baseball was reluctantly pulled into the replay era four years ago through a half-dozen embarrassing postseason officiating errors that, back in the day, might have been whisked away in a cloud of argument and nostalgia but were unforgiven in the age of Twitter, Facebook, DVR and super-zoom slow motion with 50 million people at home watching the biggest games of the season on 55-inch HD televisions. Now the unrelenting march of technology -- the new iPhone 7 doesnt even have a headphone jack -- is forcing baseball to confront it once again, both philosophically at second base and radically behind the plate.The philosophy of replay was ostensibly simple: Get the call right. Yet during a season in which time of game is a priority, baseball is dealing with an unintended consequence of replay: the spirit of replay on second-base tag plays. Former managers Joe Torre and Jim Leyland, both of whom work in the commissioners office, are vexed that replay has resulted in nitpicking.I think this is an example of where the technology is too good, Leyland said, Where, in this case, were kind of victims of the technology. It works too well. It wasnt put in place to look at 10 different angles of whether a guy came off the bag by a millimeter. It bothers me.Players, however, are more absolutist.No, the technology doesnt affect me at all, said Cubs center fielder Dexter Fowler. It doesnt make me less inclined to run, and I dont think it makes managers want to run less. Maybe you have to get a better lead, be more careful, but thats it.Fowlers faith in the stability of the stolen base comes at a time of its revival, for it wasnt so long ago that the Moneyball era discouraged speed in the game, turned it into a stock market equation of risk tolerance and reward. The Sandy Alderson-Billy Beane-J.P. Ricciardi in a time of home runs and on-base percentage thought the risk too high.I love the replay, actually. I love the fact that they get the calls right. I know there have been tough times, said Cleveland outfielder Coco Crisp. Case in point: I hit a triple when I was playing for Oakland; I slid, and you can clearly see my pinkie touch the base before he tagged me, and I was called out. Still, I love it. I would just like it not to be where, if the call is close, well keep it the same way. I want it to be full-on accurate, right or wrong. If you slide into second base and your foot or leg comes off the base a little bit and the tag is still on you? Well, youre out.Much of the old guard never wanted the technology in the first place. On the field before Game 1 of the 2011 World Series, Torre and I talked about it and he stood firm: Baseball requires the human element. Bud Selig, the commissioner at the time, backed Torre and told me that missed calls were part of the game, part of the beauty and humanity of baseball.In the digital age to a generation raised on better technology, missed calls are viewed a bit more ruthlessly, as part of (a) a fix, (b) negligence or (c) both. They were the equivalent of the rain delay (another part of the game baseball refuses to confront): If the technology can get a call right, so went the thought, why not use it?Be careful what you wish for, said former big league pitcher C.J. Nitkowski. Everyone wanted replay, and overall it has been a positive for the game. Technology is great, and HD cameras are awesome. The downside of all this technology is that if a baserunner comes a half an inch off the bag on a play, replay may catch him.?That part of this has been awful. When you beat the ball/tag to the base, you should be safe. If you slide past the bag, you should be out; if you pop off the bag but are still over it, you probably should still be safe. I dont see any way in which baseball can rectify this. I believe it is here to stay. Infielders now have to hold tags, and baserunners have to be extra cautious when sliding. I dont see overhead cameras on every base showing us when a foot or hand is still over a base. Thats the only thing that would fix this.In an era on the cusp of self-driving cars, drones delivering packages and weapons strikes from 15,000 miles away, technology is vexing baseball again, in one sacred area: a rising chorus of having an automated, sensor-controlled strike zone.What? said Cubs pitcher John Lackey. Thats gonna be way past my time. I wont be around when that happens. No way.One of the biggest evangelists of the automated zone works for Major League Baseball, MLB Network host Brian Kenny, who told me he believes the time is now. Former big league outfielder Eric Byrnes also took up the cause, appearing on HBOs Real Sports last month with a similar argument: If the technology is good enough for tennis, defense systems and intricate medical surgeries, clearly the time has come for computers to call balls and strikes.Part of baseballs problem is its unfailing ability to fight with itself. In trying to add value to television broadcasts, baseball nearly 20 years ago incorporated that little strike zone graphic over home plate that has now become ubiquitous. Fans often viewed the K-Zone graphic as an accurate depiction of the strike zone, which enraged umpires and the umpires union because the graphic gave the impression that umpires were missing calls.The league assured the umpires that the cute little graphic was just that, something for the fans so they could stay involved with the game. They did this while privately evaluating the umpires based in part on how closely called pitches during the game aligned with television graphics that were never designed to accurately capture the dimensions of the strike zone.So baseball has a problem. One solution for the second-base issue is to go backward and replace the hard bases with sacks as they used in Torres day, which would allow base stealers to hold on to the base and reduce the chance of sliding off of a solid surface.As for the strike zone, the game could eliminate the television graphics that make its umpires look bad, or actually begin to refine a technology that accurately depicts the changing shape of the strike zone. If fans at home continue to feel umpires are inconsistent with television graphics, the chorus for automation will only increase -- as will resentment from umpires.Im not in favor of it for a few reasons. First, Im not that confident that the technology is good enough. The K-Zones we see on TV are not 100 percent accurate, weve seen that this postseason, Nitkowski said. They also dont adjust for the hitter; not every hitter has the same strike zone based on height and batting stance. In tennis, the lines dont move, so you can have confidence in the technology. I dont have that same kind of confidence in an automated strike zone. Fans and hitters also will not like what pitches would now be called strikes. People forget that the strike zone is three-dimensional and starts at the very beginning of the plate, regardless of how deep a hitter stands in the box. Curveballs with good depth (Kershaw, Hill, Wainwright) that catch the very bottom of the zone will finish in the dirt or close to it. Those will be strikes, and it will be a bad look. Adidas Eqt Norge . 31, the CFL club announced Monday. The team also has yet to decide on the future of Doug Berry, who began the season as a consultant to the head coach but took over the offensive co-ordinators duties in July. Nmd_r1 Sko Hvit .Y. -- The Buffalo Sabres have placed centre Cody Hodgson on injured reserve and recalled two players from their AHL affiliate in Rochester. http://www.nmdnorgesalg.com/ . 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INDIANAPOLIS -- The stats still look bad for the Indianapolis Colts offensive line.The game tape is finally starting to become more palatable.After allowing a league-high 25 sacks and seeing franchise quarterback Andrew Luck get knocked around dozens more times in the first seven games, this young group is fighting back.Were not where we started at, but I think all five guys are starting to put it together, rookie center Ryan Kelly said earlier this week after another solid performance.Nobody will mistake this starting unit with the leagues best -- or even with those underrated offensive lines who kept Peyton Manning almost spotless for most of his career.But they are clearly making progress.Two weeks ago, at Houston, the Colts linemen paved the way for Frank Gore to become the first Colts 100-yard runner in 56 games.Last week, against a Tennessee defense that has been among the leagues best in sacks, the offensive line held up reasonably well again.While Luck went down twice, as he has in every game this season, the franchise quarterback took only seven hits. Theyve even be cutting down those pesky penalties .The Colts (3-4) did all that despite using five starting lineups in five weeks while using at least two rookies in each game.I think those guys played a great game and I think it showed with our playmakers and the way they performed, left guard Jack Mewhort said after sitting out the Titans game with an injured triceps. It was a great game, but we still have a lot of areas we need to improve on.Mewhort hopes to return Sunday against an opportunistic Kansas City defense .If the recent progression indicates anything, its this: Perhaps Indys offseason investment is starting to pay dividends.With Anthony Castonzo holding down the tackle job for the sixth consecutive season and Mewhort back at guard, general manager Ryan Grigson figured he had a left side foundation on which he could build upon.Grigson drafted Kelly in the first round, hoping to solidify the most unstable position throughout Lucks first four pro seasons. Kelly has not disappointed.His game isnt perfect, hed be the first one to tell you that, coach Chuck Pagano said.Hes making somme mistakes like everyone else but the sirens arent going off at that position, which is a good thing.ddddddddddddIndy is still trying to sort out its right side.While veteran Joe Reitz has started five games at tackle, the Colts (3-4) appear to have found a gem in fifth-round draft pick Joe Haeg, who has played well with two starts at right tackle, one at right guard and one at left guard.Joe Haeg is a perfect example of a guy who comes in, keeps his head down and works and studies, Mewhort said. I think that says a lot about him and his character.The early returns could give Haeg the inside track to becoming the fourth piece in Indys long-term puzzle.Theres no heir apparent yet for the fifth and final piece.Denzelle Good, a second-year player, has had mixed results in his five starts at right guard. Seventh-round draft pick Austin Blythe has one start in place of Good, and its not yet clear how third-round pick LeRaven Clark fits into the plan. Clark has played in three games, but has not started yet.But now that the Colts are putting things together on tape, they need to see something else -- results on paper, too.We watched the film as a group with the running backs as well and we saw some really good things and we saw some things we need to improve on, Castonzo said. As a whole, we felt pretty good about our performance.Game notes Mewhort and defensive tackle Henry Anderson (knee) did not practice Thursday after doing limited work Wednesday. Receiver T.Y. Hilton (hip) and inside linebacker DQwell Jackson (rest) also sat out Thursday. ... Tight end Dwayne Allen (ankle), defensive end Kendall Langford (knee), outside linebacker Curt Maggitt (ankle) and receiver Chester Rogers (foot and hamstring) all missed practice for the second straight day. ... Luck (right shoulder and ankle) did limited work Thursday, as has become the weekly norm. Receiver Done Moncrief (shoulder blade) and safety Mike Adams (shin) also were limited participants.---AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and AP NFL Twitter feed: www.twitter.com/AP-NFL ' ' '