If you watched the highlight of last night's Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates game that ended in what many are calling the worst call in the sports history and still think that baseball doesn't need some sort of instant replay you need to explain yourself.

Now.

Every time someone makes the argument that the great thing about baseball is the human element that means sometimes umpires will get calls wrong, an angel dies.

Maybe that's a bit over the top, but that argument is the height of ridiculousness. If you bring up instant replay in baseball with someone else and they use the phrase "human element"- run, don't walk. The surgeon general has not yet ruled that stupidity isn't contagious.

What blows my mind is the number of folks whose opinion I would otherwise respect have used that as justification. So it's OK for an umpire to make a mistake, penalize a team (in this case, drop a team from first place to third) and write it off as "welp, nobody's perfect."

I will let you expound on any other argument against instant replay. That argument gets the boot. The full size 13 right in its kiester.

Instant replay is handled just fine in the other sports, and there's no reason to believe that there isn't some form of replay that can ensure key plays- especially scoring plays- are reviewable.

The main thing in sports is to ensure the integrity of the competition. The whole point of playing the games is to determine who is better. Replay is needed, ironically, because of the very reason people argue against it: because umpires are human. They are fully capable of making mistakes.

Those mistakes however should never be allowed to change the outcome of the contest. If the possibility to prevent situations like last night is realistic, it's negligent for those in charge to not implement a solution.

But, hey, baseball's never turned a blind eye before has it?