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"Using video to review plays such as tags and whether a ball is fair or foul would interfere with the pace of games and turn umpires into "robots," according to Lamell McMorris, chief negotiator for the World Umpires Association."

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Wait, that doesn't even make sense.

How would reviewing something 100% accurate make you a robot? This isn’t like getting the balls and strikes called into your helmet. This is just being able to check your work. That would be like saying that the fact that the little red squiggly line shows up underneath a misspelling in Microsoft Word, the entire document must have been written by the computer.

...and now I'm here

by CapSea on Oct 23, 2009 1:19 PM PDT reply actions  

No

It would turn robots into umpires. I hate when people get things backwards.

"Get offa my lawn!"

by Greybear on Nov 5, 2009 4:59 PM PST reply actions  

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