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To: ConservativeStatement
I'm of two minds on this.

How can removing the human error inherent in a flesh-and-blood umpire be a bad thing?

Then again, if a pitcher has "stuff" that's so spectacular that he can fool even the umpire, how do you not give him credit for that?

Technology like this would have diminished the dominance of pitchers like Koufax and Maddux and Satchel Page, whose ball placement was so precise they could creep up on the edge of the strike zone incrementally, then put the ball just an inch outside when they wanted, leaving the batter no option but to swing at an outside pitch because he couldn't run the risk that the umpire's eyeballs weren't as precise as the pitcher's placement.

Then again, I'm a Bull Durham kinda guy. Astroturf is a sacrilege and the DH is the Anti-Christ.

6 posted on 01/12/2023 4:55:25 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

How about interleague play? The wild card?


8 posted on 01/12/2023 4:57:46 PM PST by ConservativeStatement ("Do you believe in Miracles? Yes.")
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To: Paal Gulli
Bull Durham

One of the most overrated movies ever.

25 posted on 01/14/2023 9:46:41 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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