[Cobra Mgr]

Originally Posted by dkgo

If I was entertained by people yelling at each other like idiots I would just watch the next iteration of The Real World.

Or The View.

I watch baseball in order to see...baseball

It's not entertaining for me to see injustice. Players are denied bonuses because they hit .299, not .300. Jobs are lost because a mgr didn't meet the playoff ultimatum by one game. Dreams of playing in the WS are dashed because an ump decided on the last pitch to widen his strike zone. A ring was lost because an ump choked on the play at first.

I respect anyone's preference for human umps. I understand the fear automation brings to the human workforce. But I find them poor excuses for resisting the chance to get things right. It's something I never understood. We should never have to explain why we want things to be done correctly. We can have opinions on methods of getting things done right. We can have nostalgic, sentimental feelings for the way things were done in the past. I get it. But, IMO, they are poor reasons to resist the opportunity to reach closer to perfection.