Yes, but fans aren't used to seeing a live clock at baseball games. The beauty of the game is that it can go on for 30+ innings over the course of months apparently.Originally Posted by notin
Yes, but fans aren't used to seeing a live clock at baseball games. The beauty of the game is that it can go on for 30+ innings over the course of months apparently.
The worst.
Exactly. They can fix that with a simple rule change (a player is considered in contact with the bag whenever he is over the bag on a slide).
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
Just start with ball & strikes called by automation.
The rest can be decided later. This issue dwarfs all other robo or replay concerns, IMO.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Agreed. Just too many really bad calls. It has to be impacting the game.
Why? I've been to minor league games w/ a pitch clock, visible to fans, and it hasn't done a thing other than to speed up the game. It's not drastic in any way (well, unless you're josh Beckett and want to take 45 seconds to a minute and a half between pitches).
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
A thousand times NO to robot umps.
That is all.
I think we should have robot umps so there would be no more mistakes by umps. Then we could have robot pitchers so there would be no more mistakes by pitchers. Then we could have robot fielders so there would be no more mistakes by fielders. Then we could have robot hitters so there would be no more mistakes by hitters. There game all fixed. What could go wrong. Play ball!
“Traditional” fans will absolutely hate it.
Yeah, well they can go back to banning interleague play, eliminating the playoffs, and counting walks as hits.
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
Interleague play should go away.
Interleague play is fantastic. Without it, I wouldn't get to see half the players in the league play. I don't have any interest in more games with the Orioles.
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
The strike zone, whose precise definition you are so obsessed with, is actually an approximation, as described in the rule book, the same rule book that gives umpires the authority to call balls and strikes. They have that authority because the variable size of the strike zone cries out for human judgment. Oh, and how about the dimensions of home plate, which is incredibly idiosyncratic?
And, by the way, rectangle on your screen is invisible to everyone on the field of play. It's real--phony though it is--to us, but it is not real to anyone on the field of play. They can see the bases, the lines on the field, the stands, the backstop, the pitchers mound and rubber, the fans the ballboys/girls, even the dimensions and idiosyncrasies of the ballpark. But they can't see that rectangle, which you insist must play a dominant role in games and, along the way, emasculate umpires. As I understand it, that would be fine with you because you actually don't want any umpires out there because, heaven forbid, one of them might make a mistake.
I have to ask this. I think Chris Sale is about as professional a pitcher as I've ever seen. Not the best, but very professional. He fields his position beautifully. More than that, he makes sure he is in position to field his position. He almost never shakes off his catcher. He rarely wastes time between pitches. He is incredibly focused on preparing for and executing each pitch.
And he never gripes about calls by the ump. Why is that? I mean, you gripe all the time and you have nothing at stake. Do you think Sale simply doesn't care about the overall good of baseball which you insist necessitates robo-umps?
Last edited by Maxbialystock; 10-21-2021 at 08:29 PM.
Kinda off on a tangent.
No pitcher or batter should need to study who is upping that game.
Consistent strike zones are what every ump strives for. It’s their job, and it’s impossible for them to do it because of the catcher blocking their view plus human frailties.
You’ll get used to it. It’s coming soon.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
JThey should expand inter league play.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
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