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Game Thread Our Twins vs. Red Sox 9/4 7:10 AM HKT (or 9/3 6:10 PM CDT)

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FlauerPauer First Round Pick

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What's new? Robo-ump, please!

 

I'm totally against the roboump. Just want consistency. If Dobnak gets that same call a strike, it's all good.

 

I feel like roboump would slow the game down. Also, not every player has the same strike zone. Who calls safe and out at home? Why have umpires at all? Or referees in other sports?

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Consistency is not a strength of most humans. 

 

Calling balls and strikes is super hard. Ever ump before? Even when the kids are only throwing 60s, it's still hard. The umps have the same amount of time to react to the ball as a player does. It's not an easy job. Plus, it's been played this way for over a hundred years. Would we have to rethink record books? How many called third strikes did the greats get that rookies didn't? It's an interesting debate and get why in such a technological world that we live in the mistakes get magnified that people clamor for robot umpires. If you're going to do it with home plate, I think you need to do it with all the other bases.

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Calling balls and strikes is super hard. Ever ump before? Even when the kids are only throwing 60s, it's still hard. The umps have the same amount of time to react to the ball as a player does. It's not an easy job. Plus, it's been played this way for over a hundred years. Would we have to rethink record books? How many called third strikes did the greats get that rookies didn't? It's an interesting debate and get why in such a technological world that we live in the mistakes get magnified that people clamor for robot umpires. If you're going to do it with home plate, I think you need to do it with all the other bases.

 

I don't want to belabor this discussion, but I think you have just made the case FOR having automated balls and strikes. It's not an easy job. And anything that helps the umpire get the call correct should be employed.

 

But I can't imagine automating out calls on the bases. There are just too many variables unless you had some kind of sensors on the players, the bases, and the ball/glove (perhaps something like fencing?).

 

I'd do it just for balls and strikes, and just as advice for the human umpire, who could deal with unusual situations that the automated system did not anticipate.

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Concur.

I got a friend who has had terrible luck keeping motorcycles. 3 or 4 stolen in the past year or two, the most recent one within a week of bringing it home before he could get round to registering it...

Didn't realize how such a thing could change a life so drastically. Like something from Inside Llewin Davis.

Anyway, if things go as planned, i should be at the game today, balncing out the fandom in a small group of friends.

I had a motorcycle once. 450 Honda. Wasn't a love affair. I put it in the ditch once. Came to sitting at a farmer's kitchen table, wiping blood off my face, the farmer and his wife staring at me like I was an alien. "How did I get here?" I asked. They said I pushed my disabled Honda up their driveway and knocked on the door asking for assistance. Said their dog, a black lab, was missing. Otherwise he would've barked and let them know I was coming.

 

My helmet was split right down the middle. Three days in the hospital with a concussion and a badly bruised hip where the handlebar tried to impale me. Laid in my hospital bed and watched the Twins lose three straight.

 

Got the bike fixed, let my brother take it for a spin, went straight down my driveway, across the road into the ditch and got tangled in a barbed wire fence. The thing hated me.

 

Sold the bike. Kept the brother.

 

Oh, the missing dog never returned. Farmer figured I must have hit the dog and the mutt crawled off and died in the woods somewhere.

 

His name was Lucky.

 

I've been affected by it ever since... the concussion, not the dog. The three Twins losses... not so much.

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