Oh no!!! Poor umpires might get embarrassed....

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I will be sold on it when the technology is there to cover the entire plate. I am not ok with changing one of the oldest rules in baseball just to try to get a few bad calls overturned.

AozorAg
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ABS challenge is the best thing to happen to baseball in the history of baseball. Fans, players, and coaches have been suffering umpire incompetence for 150 years. Anybody who defends "the human element"
can go **** themselves and DIAF. There is no reason to have jackasses like Bucknor back there doing anything other than calling fair/foul and outs at the plate, which also need to be subject to review. The dude blew 20 calls in that Reds game, even though they only challenged five of them. Jomboy counted them all. We need full time ABS as soon as possible.
Kaiser von Wilhelm
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One thing I've noticed watching the games to start this season is that it seems like every day there have been more challenges that have ended up confirming the calls by the umpire. This potentially has led to players hesitating more to challenge calls so they don't waste them on the closer calls. I get the sense that maybe the umpires are actually making an effort to adapt, and the players are adapting back by not challenging as much. Im not sure if this is actually true, or just a random observation based on what i WANT to happen, but the end result could actually be that most umpires do a better job now that suddenly there is accountability for the first time in their careers. The good ones with more calls that are confirmed should get bonuses, and the embarrassments like Buckner should be fired, or at least embarrassed. Which is exactly what's happening. Embarrass them until they quit, since apparently you can't fire these bums.
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