Fix Baseball

[Landshark]

In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance you haven't...

Bob Uecker won the Ford Frick award for 2003, and is in the baseball hall of fame as a broadcaster for his contributions to the game. He's also in Milwaukee's ring of honor. I loves me some Uecker...funniest man in the history of the game!

This one had me laughing so hard, I had tears!!!!   Great line from a great movie!!!!!!

[EDGECRUSHER]

Why not completely take the human element out of it.  Put a microchip inside the ball.  Let a computer determine if it was over the plate or not. 

I am fine with this. For me, the "Human Element" should always be about the players on the field. Not the umpires personal opinions. Umpires have been around forever, so I understand the desire to let them stay, but their mistakes add nothing to the game, only subtracting. Adding a computer to determine balls and strikes won't prevent Fathers from taking their sons to baseball games anymore.

[BigDaddyFin]

I am fine with this. For me, the "Human Element" should always be about the players on the field. Not the umpires personal opinions. Umpires have been around forever, so I understand the desire to let them stay, but their mistakes add nothing to the game, only subtracting. Adding a computer to determine balls and strikes won't prevent Fathers from taking their sons to baseball games anymore.

it would be a great idea but I don't know how practical it is.  You'd have to have a chip in every ball, a chip in the plate, but then don't you also need some kind of reciever in the players uniforms?

[EDGECRUSHER]

Of course the chip in the ball idea won't work. The chip would get destroyed by the bats unless that team is the Mariners. I just like a system like Questech that eliminates non-player human interaction. A bad call should never ruin a player's hard work and or failure.