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Reply to "Cameras vs Umpires -Consistency & Accuracy"

w/r/t: Just out of curiosity, did you watch that Mil game where Pitch F/X called pitches not swung at?

Nope. Don't care. Thought that was obvious.

So a few pitches out of an entire MLB season were audaciously not called properly and because of that there's a crusade to implement technology into ball/strike calling. Wasn't it said somewhere that the umpires are proven to get it right 95% of the time? Out of how many pitches throughout a season? Of the remaining 5% - what percent of those are "critical" or "game changes" in the same way that IR can overturn a play? How many of those are borderline strike1 calls on a 3-0 count? How many times as ball4 been called on what could have been strike3 - or vice versa? Is it really that important to you to be that perfect on every pitch?  If the answer is yes, then you're watching the sport for the wrong reason IMO.

Technology is not the panacea you seem to believe. Hardware and Software "bugs" are plentiful and it's susceptible to being hacked. Imagine watching the WS and at a very important moment a pitch that "looks like" it was a strike gets called a ball and no one knows why until months later they determine there was a bug or someone hacked into the system and changed the outcome of the game/history. Do we go back and play it over? Do we take back the trophy or just chalk it up to a computer malfunction? Although Don Denkinger perhaps made the most recently memorable and famous incorrect call at a critical juncture on the biggest stage that baseball has - that call was human error and not malicious or malfunctioning equipment. 

BTW: Ever feel like you're trying to enter the church parking lot after the early/first Christmas mass has ended?

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