Frustrated by a bad call by Todd Tichenor that went against his team Monday night, James Loney of the Los Angeles Dodgers called for umpires to ask for help more often, and for Major League Baseball to make changes to how the game is officiated. For one, Loney wants to expand video replay. "The more times these calls happen, the more people will want technology involved to get it right," he said. "We've already started to do that with the home runs. . . . Get it right, whatever it takes." Further, as quoted by reporter Dylan Hernandez in the Los Angeles Times , Loney suggested that baseball's way of calling balls and strikes is all wrong: "When you watch from center field, that's the best way to see balls and strikes," Loney said. Asked if he wanted the game to be called by robots, Loney said, "We'll probably eventually get there. We could be within 50 years of that." Fifty?! As someone who was hoping for flying cars by now after watching "Blade Runner" 30 years ago, Loney is being awfully conservative with his prediction. But I really like where he's going with the balls and strikes. Back in the day, human umps used to call balls and strikes from behind the pitcher because logic...