I came across this article – and the author has some great points and I wholeheartedly agree with him. We’ve trusted the umps for more than a century – championships have been won and lost, players have gone down in history, children have watched their heroes and baseball has endured, why the change?

Anyway, here is part of his article, you can read the rest at the link at the bottom.

by Josh Millar

Recently, Major League Baseball says it wants to speed up the game. OK, that’s fine. Just have extra bats ready, keep guys in the batters box.

But if baseball wants to speed up the game, it should take a good, hard look in the mirror.

At the start of this decade, MLB decided it wanted to evaluate the performance of their umpires, thus they introduced a system called QuesTech. In simple terms, it measures which pitches are balls and strikes. Doesn’t seem so bad does it?

Little did you know, QuesTech is at the heart of baseball’s pace of game problems.

Rockies starter Jason Hammel pitched scoreless ball until the eighth, when Rafael Furcal’s one-out RBI single gave the Dodgers a 1-0 victory at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday afternoon.

The Rockies made what they acknowledge was a difficult decision Wednesday by restoring catcher Yorvit Torrealba to the active roster and designating Paul Phillips for assignment.

Jorge De La Rosa has attempted to pick up the two-seam sinking fastball that has worked so well for the rest of the Rockies’ starting staff, and he’ll get a chance to try it out in Friday’s opener vs. the D-backs.

Johnny Cueto hurled six scoreless innings of one-hit ball and Joey Votto had an RBI single in the sixth to win a pitching duel for the Reds, 1-0, against the D-backs’ Jon Garland on Wednesday.

Reds manager Dusty Baker called the entire team into his office on Wednesday afternoon for a pep talk, and the rare full-squad meeting paid off with a win. Cincinnati now looks to take the rubber game of the series against Arizona on Thursday.

The deadline is fast approaching at 11:59 p.m. ET tonight to finally decide the starting position players for the 80th All-Star Game in St. Louis.

The Yankees ran their win streak to seven on Wednesday behind two early home runs and a decisive shot by Alex Rodriguez that broke a tie with the Mariners and set up a 4-2 win.

Frank Francisco blew his second save of the season, but it didn’t matter, as Hank Blalock hit his second home run of the game, a two-run walk-off shot, to beat the Angels, 9-7, on Wednesday.

It was a one-and-done Wednesday in the National League, with three games decided by the lowest possible score in baseball.