The new system whereby Major League Baseball players can challenge the ball or strike calls of umpires has been a lot more fun than I anticipated. I had a sneaking sense that the reason for instituting this system was to habituate baseball fans to the accuracy of the computer system, which is entirely self-justifying; it simply tells you it was right by drawing a picture of the call it made. As a side effect, it would humble and potentially humiliate and discredit forever human umpires, at least at ball-and-strike........

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