His lips keep moving, his hands keep flapping, yet nothing has happened. I am, of course, talking about Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig’s perpetual lie that he plans to expand the use of video replay in baseball – a lie that we have been listening to for more than four years now.

The players want it, the fans want it, heck, everybody wants it – except maybe the umpires’ union; and they should want it too, as it will add additional umpires to their ranks to watch the replays in the booth at every ballpark in the MLB. Yet every time Selig says that it will begin next season, it doesn’t. He blames the players’ union, the players’ union blames him. What is so difficult here? JUST DO IT.

Why my sudden passion for the expanded use of video replay? Well, if you watched Friday night’s Dodger game you know exactly why – another blatantly blown call that easily could have cost the Dodgers the game. And the sad part about it is that it wasn’t even a close play. Ironically, it involved two of the most exciting players in the game today, Nationals phenom Bryce Harper and Dodgers phenom Yasiel Puig.

With no score in the bottom of the second inning, Harper led off with a laser double down the right field line. On the very next play Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth hit a fly ball to straightaway right field and after Puig made the catch, Harper surprisingly tagged up and took off for third. Puig unleashed an absolute rocket to Dodger third baseman Juan Uribe, who had moved up on the ball and caught it on the fly instead of short-hopping it and promptly tagged Harper out on the left leg as Harper was sliding head first into the bag. It was a great play. It was an impossible play. It was a Puig play and everybody in the ballpark and everybody watching the game on TV knew it – everybody but third base umpire Eric Cooper who, for reasons that he will have to justify later, called Harper safe. Safe? He was out by a yard. And of course Harper scored moments later on a wild pitch by Dodger starter Ricky Nolasco, who was visibly upset by the blatantly blown call.

It wasn’t even close – Harper was out by a mile. (Video capture courtesy of Fox PrimeTicket)

Now I certainly understand that umpires are human and that like everyone else, they too occasionally make mistakes, but here is yet another burning example of an umpire getting it wrong when a very quick review of the video would have led to him getting it right.

The longer that Bud Selig keeps putting off the expanded use of video replay, the longer these blown calls will continue, which only stands to discredit and embarrass these normally exceptional umpires (Angel Hernandez notwithstanding).

Come on Bud – get it right and get it done… NOW.