00:00I mean, you think this is going to be eventually a problem for these umpires being challenged?
00:06Well, again, I mean, we've we've we've complained forever.
00:10I know as players and I think I've heard a lot of fans sense of it this way.
00:14Why aren't the umpires held to the same accountability system that players are?
00:18If you're not performing well in the big leagues, you should get sent down.
00:22And, you know, they finally started creating this grading system that umpires are grading.
00:30And one of the challenges of the grading system, and I talked about this early on, was the grading system
00:36took away the margins of the strike zone.
00:39The umpires were graded on the center of the strike zone, but not on the perimeters where in the big
00:44leagues, that's where you have to live.
00:46I don't get to live in the center of the strike zone. It's like playing football without a center.
00:50Right. I mean, like I like so. So I like that.
00:55I like that. They're held to the listen. We're watching like over the challenge system in first base on the
01:02bases.
01:03Umpires are getting it wrong like 50 percent of the time.
01:06It's in some insane number. And so if they're going to get it wrong 50 percent of the time, then.
01:14And it stands to reason you could have a fan do the job and just guess if it's 50 50
01:21and then it can't be.
01:22I mean, I don't know if you remember that the Cardinal Royal World Series, Don Dinkinger blows that call first
01:28base and changes the outcome of the World Series.
01:33Hopefully those moments are gone. And, you know, so I mean, it's where we're headed as a society.
01:42We're perfecting technology and we're implementing A.I. to the point where human.
01:51Jobs, human occupations are being taken over and technology is perfect from a mathematical sense.
02:00The strike zone is this wide and this high, anything inside that, you know, things like that.
02:05I'll tell you what my one big problem with the strike zone, the ABS system is look at the rule
02:10book, the rule book strikes on my pitch has to cross the plate at the front, anywhere in the front.
02:17Which means if I cross the front corner of the plate and angle off, it's still a strike.
02:23If you look at the ABS system, I'm pretty sure they're measuring the strike zone in the middle of the
02:28plate.
02:30That's a different strike zone.
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