This week Major League Baseball announced that although the umpires are already the ones who prepare all the game balls, and mark them as such, before every game. Now the umpires will have control of the balls until the game begins, rather than having the ball boys taking them to the dugouts. In addition, if more balls are needed during the game, an official will go to the umpire's locker room, which is otherwise locked, to retrieve new balls. They announced these changes in the wake of what is happening in the NFL.
Of course I am glad MLB is making such moves, but why is no one asking the NFL why they aren't doing similar things? Why are they going to continue to allow different teams to play with different balls? Why are they not taking steps to make sure the officials have control of the balls until play begins? Or even more, why they don't hire their own staff to control the balls during the games, rather than leaving it up to the teams? Why does it seem like their pressure gauges don't work the same, since they got two very different readings at different times using different gauges? Why, for all the broohaha about this, does the NFL not seem to be taking the "integrity of the game" seriously when they have been shown to have a significant problem?
Well, at least the MLB is doing the NFL's job, now if only the NFL would act similarly.
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