Baseball Is Weird, Illogical, Asymmetrical. Robot Umps Do Not Belong.

Mr. Moehringer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes frequently about sports.

There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of things in the world today more pressing than the new robot umpire system installed by Major League Baseball, and yet I can’t help it: I find myself thinking a lot about those robots and how much I loathe them.

I feel something close to grief at the spectacle of humans behind home plate being usurped by the robots, and I can’t shake the suspicion........

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