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Umps will find a way.

"...should have been out on strikes after the third pitch..."

Does that mean what I think it means?

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It means somehow he couldn't count to 3.

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I have 2 theories:

  1. these umps have been worse than we thought and ABS has exposed them
  2. Umps are feeling extra pressure from ABS

Baseball umpires seem to have bigger egos than referees in other sports

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Counting to 3 seems like the most fundamental officiating skill in baseball.

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Why, when we can delegate that to AI? Human skills like arrogance, stubbornness, and an undue sense of self-importance seem much more fundamental to the tradition of the game.

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Didn't the pitcher or catcher notice that three strikes had been thrown?

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No one in the stadium seemed to have noticed. Haha

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ppl went CRAZY on Twitter

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Twitter went crazy after 30 of the past 5 bad calls.

America's math education has really gone down the tubes.

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Can't we just import more Asians until our average becomes acceptable?

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Good idea. There are surely plenty of Japanese who'd be interested in becoming MLB umpires

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