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Should balls and strikes be called electronically?
I am really getting tired of having umpires unduly influence the outcome of games.
Case in point tonight was when Manny took a 3-0 pitch that was 9+ inches off the plate and was called a strike. Instead of having the bases loaded and nobody out, he ends up hitting into a double play. It is ridiculous to tell batters/pitchers that they have to adjust to the umpire. A strike should be a strike regardless of who is calling it. When the umpire expands the strike zone, it forces batters to start swinging at bad pitches rather than being called out on strikes. We have the technology available to instantly determine whether or not a ball is in the strike zone. So why don't we use it? You can talk 'spirit of the game' and 'tradition' all you want, but all you are doing is arguing that bad calls should remain a part of the game when we have the ability to remove them. |
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