[ConservativeStatement]

Reminds me of a certain Twilight Zone episode. Maybe two.

[SaxxonWoods]

OK, but the batter gets to cuss out the umpire now with no repercussions.

[Seruzawa]

They have Anti-Aircraft Artillery parks?

[MCF]

Oh H3ll, let them play T-ball.

[Paal Gulli]

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.

[redrhino47]

Can we use this ABS retroactively ?

I’d like to know whether Yogi did tag Jackie.

[CatOwner]

Check swings?

[Fai Mao]

I am actually for this at the ML level.

There shouldn’t be such a think as a “Yankee’s Strike versus a “Twin’s” strike.

Umpires should not be able to squeeze a strike zone because they are grumpy, or upset at one team, or want to move the game along and all of those things happen.

The home plate umpire in the World Series should not EVER, EVER, EVER have grown up a fan of one of the teams in the Series as happened 2011

Robot strike calls prevent all of that.

Oh, and AL umpire Angel Hernandez should be launched into the sun.

[freepersup]

How about a chip in the old football accurately signifying where the ball is at all times? Asking for a friend and DUCKING!

[TBP]

I’m sorry, but “Hey, Blue, your technology is screwed up” just doesn’t cut it.

[Ex-Con777]

A checked swing, dropped third strike is going to be a riot to watch.

EC

[discostu]

Good. It’s well past time for “my strike zone” to end. The day Curt Schilling said he reviewed tape of umps to get a handle on their strike zone before a game MLB should have realized they had a serious problem, but of course they didn’t. If the league won’t get serious about making the umps call the actual rule book then this is next best thing.