Kill the Umpire

[Progun]

Ladies and Gentlemen. Since Baseball is closer to Politics and Religion than to the Back Room, I feel this is the appropriate forum to broach this subject>:. Umpires in Major League Baseball. Should we take advantage of all the available technology, and eliminate forever at the Major Leage level the "human" factor" of calling balls and strikes, out or safe, fair or foul, balk or no balk, fan interference or not, etc.?  Camera's can do it all, they don't have a union, they can't be argued with, and they get the call right every time and you don't have to pay rhem now or ever. And they can't be bribed. I say--- KILL THE UMPIRE! Let this American Job go the way of the Conestoga wagon wheel industry. History! What do you say?

[North Pack]

NO, ...

[Big_Bill]

David,

I agree with you fully !!!! But there is one little problem,,,,TRADITION !!!!!

Baseball is the definition of TRADITION, just as the Hot Dog, Peanuts and Cracker Jacks are.

Sure,,, they may be BUMS, but there BASEBALL BUMS ! Traditional Bums :-)

Bill

[MartinDWhite]

How dare you trust a machine. I program robot and other custom software for a living. NEVER should you trust a machine. No matter what someone tells you, they are just shadows of what people thought was the right decision at sometime in the past. A cold heartless reason engine without the ability to expand and grow. People should always be left to make the decisions.

If you replace the umpire with a camera you are only a few steps from replacing the doctor with a machine and the life/death decision is reduces to a cost/benefit ratio that someone last year thought was correct.....or worse the whims of a hacker....

     Martin D. White

[North Pack]

Life's already too much like a video game, ...

[Bogey]

It is the "Human Factor" that makes  baseball interesting.  No cameras for calls.     Just simple human beings with all thier quirks.