Hour 2 - Replay Revamp
The Ben Maller Show
Fox Sports Radio and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 864 Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Bernie Fratto fills in for Ben Maller and talks about the XFL's take on instant replay and if it's something the NFL should adopt, the issues with MLB's pitch clock, and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | That's right. You heard the man. The Ben Mallor Show keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frato. |
| 0:07.3 | Sitting in for Ben. We're coming live from the Tyrak.com studios, Fox Sports Radio here in Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 0:14.5 | Tyrac.com will help you get there. An unmatched selection, fast free shipping, for your road road hazard protection and over 10,000 |
| 0:21.6 | recommended installers Tyrak.com the way tire buying should be the XFL just had their |
| 0:29.3 | championship game played in front of a raucous crowd of dozens plenty of sections available |
| 0:34.7 | and you know the XFL well you know they only lost about $60 million this first year for roughly, |
| 0:40.8 | you know, 12% of Aaron Rogers' career earnings. |
| 0:43.7 | But I digress. |
| 0:45.1 | Look, there is something that the XFL did this year that I am going to tip my cap for |
| 0:52.5 | because none of us, none of us like the way the current NFL |
| 0:57.7 | officiating is prosecuted, especially vis-a-vis the replay. It takes too long. They don't always |
| 1:05.2 | get it right. Sometimes it's even more confusing. And if you watched any of the XFL this season, |
| 1:09.9 | or even if you didn't, you can read |
| 1:12.1 | all about it in the papers. Viewers got an inside-the-booth look at replay reviews when challenged |
| 1:18.6 | calls were examined. So you see a call you don't like. They bring it up to the booth. They either |
| 1:26.4 | uphold the call or they overturn it, right? |
| 1:28.7 | But here's the kicker, because they think they do that in the NFL. |
| 1:33.1 | And the XFL, it's not just the play-by-play announcer or the color commentator reviewing the slow-motion replay, |
| 1:40.5 | repeating themselves over and over, and looking at pretty much the same angles we are |
| 1:45.7 | this has to do with the broadcast rules analyst now the XFL telecast the ones that |
| 1:52.8 | were on ESPN ABC and FX they were actually showing the guy who makes the final |
| 1:59.5 | ruling on whether or not a call should stand. |
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