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Rule its designed just for him the league struck a deal on a few measures just for this season including what might disappoint baseball purists for the return automatic runner on second with the rule i dont hate it, but i get the complaints the rule will not extend to the postseason and finally it was a big day for pittsburghs ben gamble, who started his afternoon in uniform for the pirates breakthrough league ever spring training game with the orioles before plans to welcome his first child i...

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The ball out. umpires will be able to use video replay to make sure they get these calls right. and john, baseball purists, you know, they dont like rule changes that change the game in any way. what do you think about this new rule? >> i think they need to do something, try to do something to address the home plate collisions, because theyre ridiculous things. it happened a lot to us here on "early start,". no, in all seriousness, i think they need to do do something. theres a little bit of a g...

>> iguodala. here he comes. he got it! the warriors have won on a game-winning shot by andre iguodala! >> even if you dont like the team, a buzzer beater at home is awesome. golden state pulse off the 116-115 win. just a cool highlight. to baseball. most valuable player awards. the american league, miguel cabrera, second straight year. he was hurt most of the year. finishing the season with a .348 average. second in home runs and rbis. the national league, a little surprise. andrew mccutchen, ...

Baseball purists may be thinking say it aint so, but it looks like major league baseball is about to greatly expand the use of instant replay. brian todd has been looking into whats going -- this is historic, brian. this is huge. share the details with our viewers. >> if this goes through, youre going to see something like those nfl challenge flags, the coaches throw on the nfl, those may be on major league baseball fields next year. baseball wants to eliminate the human error calls that cost te...

>> mm-hmm. >> the movie is better than the book. youre just thrilled with how the movie -- >> its funny. scenes like that which look pure invention, they came right from life. this is what this general manager did. he was swapping players as if they were commodities in a market. >> you know, the fascinating thing is a lot of baseball purists love to scoff at the billy bean story. they go, well hes never won the world series, but teams that have won the world series went to school on what billy b...