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Murphy stinks. Stunk most of the 7 games he’s played. The stench of this season’s pathetic bullpen is all over he and Thornton. There had to be someone else we could have brought in. Maybe not.
 
Man Bear Pig said:
I've heard older fans legit try and make the argument that they like how theres human error involved. Its astonishing. we're already using tech to check replays on the field, why not take advantage and use it to make proper calls? The less errors, the better. How many missed calls over a season could cost you a playoff spot? Calls like the one earlier could be backbreaking in a playoff run.
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This never makes any sense to me because it's (quite reasonably) never something you'd ever hear about basically anything else.

"I asked for no pickles on my burger but they gave me pickles. Oh well, I appreciate the human error of the process! I'll just eat it including the pickles instead of taking them off or going back to the counter and harassing the server."

"A doctor told me I have cancer only for it to turn out that they were reading the x-ray wrong. I sure am glad that the human element isn't being taken out of medicine!"

"I have to pay a bunch of extra money on my taxes because it turns out the accountant didn't file my return properly. But that's ok because at least they didn't turn the return prep over to a computer!"

I know these are obviously bigger stakes than a baseball game, but that's not the point. The point is that these are situations where people tend to get angry and expect better. But we're supposed to just shrug and go "oh, you." with a sly smile when an umpire repeatedly shows themselves to be bad at a fundamental aspect of their job?

There is zero actual downside to fixing strike zone consistency with a tech solution other than ridiculous appeals to traditionalism or 'the human element". It's not some slippery slope to removing human umps from the field entirely (at least not now while there are tech barriers to replacing everything a human ump does), if done right it's not going to drag the games out longer to the detriment of pace of play, and this weird counter about machines that they won't be perfect so why bother changing doesn't even make sense because the goal is not perfection, just improvement.
 
CantLoseWithMatthews said:
if you like human errors, going with Murphy in a high leverage situation is a good one. No need for umpires to blow easy calls
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There we go. If we can't detest "the human element" of umpire incompetence then we can't criticize managerial incompetence either! I, for one, am glad that Charlie sucks at his job. Because it beats correct decisions potentially being made by a soulless computer spreadsheet!
 
The Nemesis said:
This never makes any sense to me because it's (quite reasonably) never something you'd ever hear about basically anything else.

"I asked for no pickles on my burger but they gave me pickles. Oh well, I appreciate the human error of the process! I'll just eat it including the pickles instead of taking them off or going back to the counter and harassing the server."

"A doctor told me I have cancer only for it to turn out that they were reading the x-ray wrong. I sure am glad that the human element isn't being taken out of medicine!"

"I have to pay a bunch of extra money on my taxes because it turns out the accountant didn't file my return properly. But that's ok because at least they didn't turn the return prep over to a computer!"

I know these are obviously bigger stakes than a baseball game, but that's not the point. The point is that these are situations where people tend to get angry and expect better. But we're supposed to just shrug and go "oh, you." with a sly smile when an umpire repeatedly shows themselves to be bad at a fundamental aspect of their job?

There is zero actual downside to fixing strike zone consistency with a tech solution other than ridiculous appeals to traditionalism or 'the human element". It's not some slippery slope to removing human umps from the field entirely (at least not now while there are tech barriers to replacing everything a human ump does), if done right it's not going to drag the games out longer to the detriment of pace of play, and this weird counter about machines that they won't be perfect so why bother changing doesn't even make sense because the goal is not perfection, just improvement.
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I think older fans like umps because they dont like change. Which is silly to me, I'm 35 and have been watching since the early 90's and I can accept having robot umps. If it were up to me there would be no umpires making any calls. Baseball is one of the few sports where it's possible to get the call right 100% of the time, or close to it.
 
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Man Bear Pig said:
I think older fans like umps because they dont like change. Which is silly to me, I'm 35 and have been watching since the early 90's and I can accept having robot umps. If it were up to me there would be no umpires making any calls. Baseball is one of the few sports where it's possible to get the call right 100% of the time, or close to it.
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Yup...I'm 68 and can't wait for the "auto umps"...sick and tired of the ball 2"-4" outside being called strikes
 
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The Nemesis said:
This never makes any sense to me because it's (quite reasonably) never something you'd ever hear about basically anything else.

"I asked for no pickles on my burger but they gave me pickles. Oh well, I appreciate the human error of the process! I'll just eat it including the pickles instead of taking them off or going back to the counter and harassing the server."

"A doctor told me I have cancer only for it to turn out that they were reading the x-ray wrong. I sure am glad that the human element isn't being taken out of medicine!"

"I have to pay a bunch of extra money on my taxes because it turns out the accountant didn't file my return properly. But that's ok because at least they didn't turn the return prep over to a computer!"

I know these are obviously bigger stakes than a baseball game, but that's not the point. The point is that these are situations where people tend to get angry and expect better. But we're supposed to just shrug and go "oh, you." with a sly smile when an umpire repeatedly shows themselves to be bad at a fundamental aspect of their job?

There is zero actual downside to fixing strike zone consistency with a tech solution other than ridiculous appeals to traditionalism or 'the human element". It's not some slippery slope to removing human umps from the field entirely (at least not now while there are tech barriers to replacing everything a human ump does), if done right it's not going to drag the games out longer to the detriment of pace of play, and this weird counter about machines that they won't be perfect so why bother changing doesn't even make sense because the goal is not perfection, just improvement.
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Wait, you'd harass a server over a simple mistake? :sarcasm:
 
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What's with the guy in the Leafs "Moorecroft" jersey behind home plate that's spending the whole game holding the nameplate up so it can be on camera?

Nobody cares that you put your own name on a jersey, dude.
 
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