"Modernity" has given us the Instant Replay, where we can see and review miscalls and sometimes correct them because we have new perspectives and insights umpires didn't have.

Alas, the Trads insist that new insights, new views, new data, new perspectives, and new rules of the game are never allowed to enter into the picture. It clipped the outside corner, "because I said so." He missed the tag "because the ump ruled that way."

"If we start reversing calls, we allow folks to doubt the correctness of calls--even wrong calls--and we can't have that! Anarchy will rule. Better to support the umps than the truth. Reversing authority is a slippery slope we can't risk."

I think it was this kind of reasoning that led to Humanae Vitae and to the insistence afterward that while an expert review might provide truth, a reversal isn't worth the risk to authority. It was decided that the umpires--not the players--should decide the outcome of the game!