DETROIT -- Kenny Rogers thinks the New York Yankees caused Major League Baseball to start allowing umpires to consult instant replay on home run calls.
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One of the most replayed blown calls of the year came May 21, when the Yankees' Alex Rodriguez lost a home run on a blown call -- the ball went over the fence but the umpire thought it didn't and A-Rod was given a double.
"I don't like it," Rogers said after MLB announced Tuesday that instant replay will start being used this week. "I think that it overshot the mark by far just because, what, in a Yankee game someone didn't get a homer? Please. It's happened thousands of times. That's part of the game. It's the beauty of the game. Mistakes are made."
The Detroit Tigers left-hander, who pitched for the Yankees 1996-97, thinks MLB's decision shows a lack of support for the umps.
"It's a slap in the face of umpires that have been here for a long time and they've done a very good job with difficult situations in all aspects," Rogers said. "So they made the call wrong once in a while. We've all done things wrong once in a while."
"For every human individual out there, we're all playing our best. We make errors. It's part of the game," Rogers said. "We don't get a chance to go back -- 'I want a mulligan.' -- It's not the way it works. It's not the way it should work."
