Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Jason Fitz and Caroline Fenton react to the first successful automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge in the New York Mets vs. Pittsburgh Pirates game. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.
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But Francisco Alvarez executed the first successful, we saw one in that Giants-Yankees game, unsuccessful, but the first successful ABS challenge in Major League Baseball history by overturning a ball to strike three pivotal call that was absolutely crucial for the Mets.
My first pitch to you is more robot refs in sports the better.
Take a rake.
Oh, oh yeah.
look, I’m, I’m tapping the head all day on this.
I want everything to do with this.
I am raking this thing over center field, and I am just lollygagging.
I’m robot cartwheeling all the way to home plate with this take.
Like, I don’t want human, umps at all.
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Like, I don’t want a human element of the game from any official.
In fact, if you eliminated all human elements of all officials in every game, it’d be fine with me.
I’m that guy.
Let me be very clear.
Like, when I, I live in Connecticut where they’re now, putting forth legislation that would put cameras all over the highways to get all the speeders, and they’re just automatically gonna send you tickets.
I support this.
I want more automation of everything in my life.
I want cameras on every traffic light so that any time somebody runs a red light, boom, you just get sent a ticket, right?
Like, I want automation of everything in these situations.
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So if you can eliminate the human element of missing a call, why would you not do it?
If you can put chips in footballs to automatically spot first downs, why would you not do it?
I want robot umps, I want robot refs, I want robot concessions, I want robot everything.
Just give it to me.
If you can take out the human element and the opportunity for mistakes, like as you mentioned, Caroline, in all seriousness here, that was a key call that would’ve been wrong that could’ve changed the outcome of the game.
Why would I not want to correct key calls that could be wrong, that could change the outcomes of games?
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So frankly, I want umps that are robots.
I want them fully built like robots, and I would like for them to celebrate with tremendous personality so that we can fall in love with certain robots as they call you o- out.
Like, I just love the concept of somebody wanting to yell and scream at a robot for calling a strike or a ball.
Nothing you can do.
The robot’s right, you’re not.
It eliminates the yelling, it eliminates the screaming, and it eliminates the bad calls.
Give it to me.