00:00Major League Baseball has implemented a lot of technology, and earlier in the show we were
00:03talking about, you know, Adam Silver squirming a little bit to some questions that he had to
00:08answer yesterday, and I do appreciate him, you know, getting in front of him and answering them
00:12as best as he could, but the one thing he did bring up which really fascinated me was talking
00:17about using artificial intelligence to help make some calls on the court going forward.
00:24D. Fish, what do we know about this as of now? Is this good for the game? Will this help
00:31pace of play? What are the actual goals for what this is, and also just what is it?
00:37I mean, to my knowledge, and I think it's a great conversation to have, and like we can
00:42continue to have over the summer, to my knowledge, it's more about the really clearly objective
00:51calls that we should always just get right in any sport, right? Like, for example, if
00:58a player is dribbling along the sideline or the baseline, and the smallest leather piece
01:05of the basketball barely touches the out-of-bounds line, but to the human eye, maybe the official
01:11doesn't call that the ball actually touched the line. In tennis, you see this. In baseball
01:18now with the challenge system, you see like, no, the ball didn't cross the plate or it did
01:23in terms of the strike zone. And so what I believe is going to happen is that the NBA
01:29is going to move towards that type of ability to just quickly, without any type of reviews
01:35or challenges taking four minutes so that the referees can get the right angle to see if
01:41his shoelace touched the three-point line when he shot a three. That should just be an easy
01:46decision. We shouldn't have to stop the game and have to wait or go to commercial to figure out
01:51whether or not he stepped out. I could see maybe goaltending plays in terms of there's the cylinder
01:58above the rim that sometimes is officiated subjectively because depending on what angle
02:05as an official you have, when you're trying to decide if there was goaltending or not,
02:10you may be officiating that from an angle where it's not clear, bro, that ball was clearly above
02:16the cylinder like that is above the rim. So technology-wise to just clearly have that digital
02:24image of like the cylinder and whether or not the ball actually touched it at all or was above it,
02:30those are quick things to decide without coaches having to challenge whether or not it was the
02:36right call. And then it just, it keeps the game moving. It clarifies it for fans, coaches, and
02:41players that it was the right or the wrong call. Yeah. And then we can just get back to focusing
02:45on
02:45playing the game the right way. See, I love it. I love, I love when technology is implemented in sports
02:53correctly. Like I love anything that makes the games move more efficiently. And I've been saying
02:58this in baseball for years too, because now obviously baseball, after baseball spending like a hundred
03:03years in the dark ages. And I honestly, I mean that from the bottom of my heart, up until five
03:09years
03:09ago, baseball was so, so, so dead set on making sure this was an 1800s game. Thank God these last
03:18five years have happened and they've just implemented so much technology, so much more fun, so much more
03:24smoothness to the game. The way they've implemented technology, do you think baseball has like kind of
03:29given the NBA kind of like almost like a go ahead, like, no, see, we're doing it and look how
03:35much
03:35it's working. Use this. I think baseball has, you know, I think, I mean, tennis has always had it.
03:43I've always appreciated it. Oh yeah. I was confused actually. Yeah. And why more sports weren't using
03:48the in out technology that tennis has been using for years now. And so, you know, even, even watching
03:56golf, you got the shot tracer, like they, they see exactly where that golf ball, the trajectory of it,
04:01where it's landing, how far I carried in the air. And so I think this is just a move towards,
04:06I mean,
04:07in my opinion, with how much money is involved in terms of media rights, partners, you know,
04:15gambling partners, yeah. Sports betting, predictive marketing, like you, you can't have things that
04:21should be clearly black or white, right or wrong inbounds or out of bounds. Those, you can't miss
04:28those. You can't. We had one the other night that, that, that, that call that where Mitch didn't get
04:33the review that he wanted. They should have gotten the ball because it was their ball. Correct. Like
04:39you can't, you can't miss those plays. And so it also, even, even the energy around officiating
04:45could be positively impacted because the officiating will improve the more you can
04:53effectively add technology in the right ways because it takes it out of the official's hands
04:59to like look over and see at the right time that his shoe actually touched the line. Yeah. Like
05:05that's just something that doesn't, the official doesn't even have to worry about because he knows
05:09as soon as we go to commercial, that technology will confirm whether he was in or out. And then we'll
05:14have to either go and take those two points off or we'll have to add a point because it was
05:18a three
05:18or a two and it just makes it a lot cleaner experience to me. So my, my follow-up question
05:24before we wrap this up for this time being, um, what do the refs feel about this? Is this something
05:28the refs will be appreciative of or is it going to be like, will it be some pushback the way
05:33the
05:33umpires kind of had some pushback at the beginning of the season? Yeah, it'll probably be some pushback
05:37initially just because as a human, you don't necessarily want to be put in a position where everything you do
05:42is going to be under a microscope in that way. Yeah. Um, but ultimately their job is to get
05:47it right. So even if there's pushback, we'll eventually get there.
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