This was the most egregious part of the ordeal. How did they spend 40 minutes reviewing something that lasted 10 seconds and not catch the player who was most visible and aggressive. I gotta think they meant to eject him and screwed up and ejected Amani Larry (no. 8) instead.
About Saturday night. Even if something had happened (nothing did), they should have just let the umpires handle it on the field and then the SEC office can spend all the time they need to review the footage and hand out suspensions. A 45-minute review should not even be possible. Really any review over 2 minutes should not be possible. If you can't clearly, and I mean clearly so there's no debate, overturn a call in less than 2 minutes, it stands. But review creep has proven they won't adhere to any time limits, or limits in what can be reviewed or standards for how clear the error must be to overturn.
I'm stuck between greatly limit and accept that some calls will be wrong and move on. Sometimes getting calls wrong is just a part of the game. You have to be ready to overcome that. I think I agree with someone else here who said limit when review can be used and how long it takes. I mean it's just life. Some stuff isn't going to go your way even when you are right. It's almost like we are obsessed with perfection in all aspects of life. We expect people to be perfect, and no one is. We expect our kids to be perfect, our politicians, our celebrities, our game officials. I think it makes us nit picking miserable misanthropes.
I just love how at the end of the game .3 seconds matter but throughout the game they don’t. Kind of like the chain verifies a first down to the millimeter, but when they were set for the first down it was eyeballed within a foot or so.
I am still of the opinion the SEC needs to deem this a "no contest". There is just no justification whatsoever to count what happened after the top of the 8th, in particular since #8 had no business even getting the opportunity to hit that game-winning HR.
