Major League Baseball is making adjustments heading into the 2014 season. One specifically is the instant replay aspect being implemented. While we are all used to seeing NFL games in slow motion, this may take some getting used to, but here’s a glimpse at the control room. Gorgeous. 

Jeff Passan of Yahoo Sports took a trip to this land of technological utopia and it seems to be a combination of baseball, your dream Man Cave,  and NASA. Which really, is never a bad thing. Here is a look at MLB’s instant replay center.

And according to Passan, the set-up with the umpires is just as bad ass:

“…those making the calls behind the scenes in the replay booth are the same that we have come to know throughout the years on the field. MLB will rotate umpires in and out of the office, so official umpires will be the ones taking a second look at plays if that’s what is requested.”

This of course brings up a lot of questions, which is understandable:

What plays are subject to instant replay? What is allowed to be reviewed? Who can challenge calls? How are some of these things measure etc. etc.

CBS had a quick refresher in a recent article: A Guide to MLB’s New Expanded Replay Rules:

“1. Each manager gets one challenge to use in the first six innings. If a manager successfully challenges a call in the first six innings, he will get another challenge to use in the first six innings. No third challenge will be issued.

2. Umpires will decide when calls need to be reviewed in the seventh inning and thereafter.

3. The new system allows for the reviews of homers, ground-rule doubles, fan interference, boundary calls, most force plays, tag plays, fair or foul calls in the outfield, outfielders trapping the ball, hit by pitches, timing plays (whether a runner scores before a third out), touching a base, passing runners and record keeping, according to the New York Daily News.

4. Balls hopping over first or third base that require a fair-or-foul ruling can’t be challenged.

5. A member of each team’s video staff can communicate his opinion of a call to his team’s dugout. Each team will have access to the same video feeds for review in any given ballpark. There will be a phone connecting the video room and dugout.”

Don’t worry there will not be a test afterwards. However, it’s extremely important fans understand these new instant replay rules and regulations. This will avoid confusion and eye-rolling at stupid tweets. I think it’s safe to say Lou Pinella is happy to be out of his managerial spot. Can you imagine?

So basically to sum it up, it’s going to be a lot of slow motion replay (which most of the time we won’t be able to tell if

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