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Best: Replay reviews? The games already are too long!

Neil Best

Newsday columnist Neil Best

Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, then returned

Replay reviews in baseball? Really?

Complete with hooded video screens, manager challenges, debates over the nuances of "indisputable evidence,'' umpires scribbling notes to one another . . . the works, NFL-style?

Really?

I'm all for getting calls right, but not at the expense of worsening the single biggest problem facing the national pastime:

The games are too long...

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