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Robo umps can’t get here soon enough as unhinged humans remind sports fans that baseball still has worst officials

The MLB’s umpires are really milking their last few minutes of relevance, and in the process aren’t doing themselves any favors in the argument against robot umpires taking their jobs. No, Triple A isn’t testing out a robo-ump at the moment, but maybe they should be because what happened to Madison Bumgarner on… Read more…

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This was your human element moment

I’m not here to claim that anyone should feel sorry for the Tampa Bay Rays. While MLB would love to position them as the plucky underdog, what they really are is the model that almost every team owner has pointed to while yelling at their front office saying, “Why can’t we win that cheaply?! ” […]

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I for one don’t welcome our crappy new robot umpire masters

Do you remember the part in Iron Man 2 where Tony Stark was in court and the United States government was essentially trying to take the Iron Man technology for themselves and their argument was that other countries were developing the particular same technology, then Stark hacked the monitors and showed a video of Justin… […]

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If MLB wants to fix what’s wrong, all it has to do is watch the college game

Dallas Baptist University is playing the University of Virginia in a win-or-go-home Super Regional game right now, and something I haven’t seen in a while just happened — a runner got on first, stole second, then the batter hit a sacrifice fly to deep right to move the runner to third. What is this? Actual […]