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This reminds me of a cartoon I saw about 45 years ago when I was a teenager. My uncle who died about that time had a scrapbook that he had as a teenager, 1925-1935?. He was a St. Louis Cardinal fan and kept baseball articles. Anyway, There was an article in his scrapbook discussing hooking the umpires up to an electronic device that the umpires would use to show balls and strikes, something like light bulbs. A reporter asked Casey Stengel what he thought about it and his response was in the form of a cartoon. He said, go for it, maybe the bastards will get electrocuted. And it had a caricature of an ump behind home plate shaking while being hooked to electrical lines. Probably not PC correct but the Robo umps reminds me of that cartoon and I can imagine Stengel saying that today if he were alive.
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