Lou Piniella on baseball's instituting of instant replay:
Replay will go into use with three series scheduled to open Thursday. For other games, replays will be available to umpires starting Friday.
Cubs manager Lou Piniella wondered whether a team could challenge a call.
''I'd love to be able to throw a red hankie or a green hankie. Imagine being able to throw something on the field and not be ejected,'' he said. ''I shouldn't say it's not going to work, but this could turn into a little bit of a fiasco initially.''
What's the big rush? I haven't followed the ins and outs of the instant replay debate, but it seems that it would be better to experiment or institute it in some spring training games, so that wrinkles can get ironed out when the games don't count for much. But to institute it in the last month of a season, when games really matter? That doesn't make much sense, does it?