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MLB plans 'robot umps' to call balls, strikes during spring training games
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Hope they go to it in the regular season. Reputation calls should never happen for a pitcher or batter.
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Can't wait until Gardenhire tries to kick dirt on one.
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Maybe they'll next have a robot version of a commissioner that will shrug when teams cheat their way to a World Series.
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Meh. That doesn’t bother me
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Atleast when CB Bucknor is scheduled to ump
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Will they retroactively kick Greg Maddux out of the HOF? Without reputation calls, he’d have lost about 50 more games.
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This is a GREAT sign! I don’t need to get there right away, but I DO want to get to the point where this is the norm in MLB. To get there, though, it needs to be tested. And ST is the perfect place to test it.
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Can't wait to see dirt kicked on a fucking bot!
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Take advantage of the situation at hand, but he's an example of a reason to have an electronic strikezone. Because Maddux knew exactly what he was doing.
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Just like all the times managers currently kick dirt on umps after a bad ball/strike call.
Or all the times managers kick dirt on the headphone guy during replays today.
Yeah. Can’t wait...
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Will be awesome watching a player get called out on strikes and turn around to complain only to realize no one is there.
Unless they plan to have a figurehead ump out there who calls other plays but not balls/strikes. Then he will just throw his hands up and tell em to take it up with "number 5".
Unless they plan to have a figurehead ump out there who calls other plays but not balls/strikes. Then he will just throw his hands up and tell em to take it up with "number 5".
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If this results in the hastened retirement of Joe West then I am all for it. Bring on the robots.
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An ump will still have to be there. If a pitcher spikes a 50 footer that bounces into the strike zone, the ump on the field would have to over rule the robot. Plus the home plate ump would still be needed for fair or foul calls on infield grounders, plays at the plate, etc
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Home plate ump wears an earpiece, and relays the call from the bot.
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Joey Votto’s douchey ways will be even more front and center too.
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I think that if they used a pitching machine we'd have more consistent pitching.
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If it can go more than 6 innings, I’m in
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They must have changed the article! The link you posted says the exact opposite.
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