Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: You know what would stop these silly hair-splitting challenges: you get it wrong and you lose your challenge for the next game That might be over-engineering. Only allow challenges to be made on the field and immediately, give the umps Bluetooth headsets, and the world is much more in alignment. Sure. But that play was a virtual and obvious tie at best, so the idea that the game gets stopped, for how ever long it gets stopped, so that the umps can decide a coin flip isn't within a Pete Alonso HR of what the rule was intended to "correct". If only this kind of silliness could have been foreseen prior to employing the rule!