00:00Let me tell you, the ABS challenges are electric.
00:03We got people getting chucked out, fired up, crowds into it.
00:06Crowds into it.
00:07Crowds into it, Cincinnati, robots tossing people.
00:09I gotta love it.
00:10Also, I feel like the guy did, the pitcher, Helsley, did challenge it right away.
00:14Think about it, because like, as the play-by-play guy was saying like, ball four, you hear over
00:18the PA, like, call, yeah, it's a challenge.
00:20So I'm like, that was pretty quick.
00:22But yeah, either way, people are gonna get fired up, let alone the umpires, you know,
00:26just deep down are like, why am I even still doing this?
00:29So I wasn't really, like, super fired up about this system.
00:33It's great.
00:34Well, I felt really good about it on Thursday when it worked out for the Red Sox.
00:38It did not work out great for them over the weekend, but I feel like the system's working.
00:41It's pretty fast.
00:42Yeah.
00:43I think they're largely getting stuff right, and I don't think it's slowing things down
00:47too, too much.
00:48Now, look, the objection there, that's gonna slow it down.
00:51It's probably gonna be, honestly, a little overused, I feel like, because like, you don't
00:56want to, like, leave challenges out there, right?
00:58So you're gonna use them, because I think the spirit of it is literally the call against
01:02the Dominican Republic in the last, like, the bottom of the ninth inning.
01:06That's really what you need it for.
01:08You better save it for that moment so you can't cry about it after the game.
01:11Yeah, and if you already used them, like the Red Sox did, like, morons on Saturday, that's
01:15not on the ump.
01:16That's on you.
01:16I agree with that.
01:17Also, the Red Sox, it's a three-game sample size, but you and I both think they're gonna
01:22play a lot of close games.
01:23They won three-nothing, and then they've won back-to-back, or lost back-to-back games
01:27by one run.
01:28I probably wouldn't challenge anything until the final three innings.
01:31Agreed.
01:31I think you're gonna be in a lot of super-tight games.
01:33You're gonna want to hold on to them.
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