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Speaker 1 (00:05):
We are making changes to keep up with progress, and
it looks like next year.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So is baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Robots are coming to baseball. AI is taking over Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Couldn't be worth andy? How could have Angel Hernandez back?
I would I'd rather have No, You wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You wouldn't because Angel Hernandez would get overturned on every
call and they would get the call right, so they'd
have unlimited challenges and a game would take six hours
to play.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But anyway, I am just going to have to embrace it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I decided back about six seven years ago, about two
years or two or three years before baseball went to
the Universal DH, that picture should no longer bat and
I've I've told this story before, but Masha here at.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Tanaka was playing for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The opposing pitchers should have been fired for walking him,
which he did. So he walks because he didn't even
swing the day he had the bat on his shoulders.
All other guy to do is pump three right down
the middle because he wasn't gonna swing, and he somehow
walked to Naka. There was a hit to the outfield,
so he moved up to second. There was another hit
(01:18):
to the outfield. So he moved up to third, and
there was a sacrifice flight of the warning track and
he scored and pulled both hamstrings and was out for
two months. And I said, right then and there, pitchers
should never be on the bases and they should never hit,
no matter how good of a hitter they are.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So there's change about.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But the robots are coming to Major League Baseball next year,
and the way it works, as it was tested in
spring training, is that the umpire will have an earpiece
and as soon as the pitch happens, the robot will
tell you whether it's a ball or a strike, and
that's what the umpire will call. And if you, as
a player, don't think that it was a baller a strike,
(01:56):
you can challenge and they'll go to the video thing
that we see now and see if it clipped the
corner or it clipped the bottom half of the plate
or wherever it needs to be, and if you got
it right, then you get to retain your challenge, and
each team will have two challenges per game. Now we've
taken the human element out of calling the game, we're
still going to We still have video on safe for
(02:18):
out at first base, or any other base But here's
one of the things I'm really interested in seeing, not
just in spring training, but overall throughout the entire season.
One of the things that Major League Baseball has done
a great job of is the pitch clock has forced
the game to be sped up, and games that took
three and a half to four hours now take two
(02:39):
and a half to three hours. We also make the
pitcher pitch to at least three batters, so teams can't
stack their roster with fourteen pitchers and in late innings
change every batter. So that's a good thing to help
speed up pace a play and not have all the
breaks in a game that cause the time limit to
go further? Do we as a society have an attention
(03:02):
deficit syndrome issue going on? As we age as a
society now, not necessarily older people, but certainly younger kids
don't want to spend as much time doing something as
they did before, and our attention span is less and
less every time that we.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Get into the next year.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So that's part of the reason why Major League Baseball
did that. They don't want you to pitch to one
batter and then take a two and a half minute
break until you change pitchers and he warms up and
they go out and pitch again. So this is going
to happen, and I'm interested. But here's what I'm interested
in seeing. There are pitchers that like a high strike zone.
They want the letters called because that's where they feel
(03:41):
like they're the most effective. There are pitchers that can
throw backdoor breaking balls and back door sliders that look
like they're about to hit the batter and then they
cross the plate. And there are also pitchers like sinker
ball and secret slider pitchers that like to work either
the corners or like to work the bottom half of
the plate. And they know when they get into in
(04:02):
a game the tendency for each umpire and how they
call a game. And if an umpire does not give
you the knee high strike or just below the knees,
then that's going to be a harder game for you
to pitch. And let's say you're a sinker ball pitcher
that needs the knee high strike on every pitch. If
you don't get the knee pitch and you have to
elevate the ball a little bit, you're going to get hit.
(04:25):
And their studies in Major League Baseball that have shown
that if if the ball misses the plate, remember misses
the spot in which you're trying to pitch to by
as much as a half an inch throwing it as
hard as you can from sixty feet six inches, that
that's the difference between.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Swing and miss, a foul ball and a home run.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And they have done studies on this, and they did
it particularly on Aaron Judge once and if the ball
was elevated or moved in any direction by less than
an inch, he would have probably hit the ball out
of the par or at least gotten.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The base hit out of it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So my question is, are we going to eliminate pictures
that don't throw the ball over the middle of the plate,
because it doesn't have to be a strike, it just
has to look like one. And if you are a
player that knows that a certain player doesn't necessarily throw
a lot of strikes, you have to go up there swing. Now,
(05:23):
you can take two or three pitches, and if it's
a two zero count or three to zero count, and
that pitcher is still going to nibble a little bit,
you're probably going to walk a lot. And my concern
about not having human beings umpire game and having robots
do it is that we're going to have a lot
more walks, or we're going to have a lot more
home runs and hits because pitchers are going to have
(05:43):
to put the ball out over the plate and see
if the guy can hit it, and most of the
time they will. And it doesn't matter whether it's being
pitched at eighty seven or one hundred and seven major
League Baseball players. If it's over the middle of the plate,
there's going to be contact, and quite often it's going
to be contact in play.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, I mean, at this point we've talked about it
so many times with the analytics, Andy, that chicks dig
the long ball. There's no such thing as singles, doubles
or triples anymore. So who cares that there? Who cares
if there's live umpires or robot umpire?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What what are we going to start complaining again? When
the scores are seventeen to fifteen and they take four
hours to play.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Then Rob Manford will come up with some other reason
and some other you know, explanation to try to shorten
the game even more. You know, I could see a scenario, Andy,
to where instead of having three outs in inning, if
if we get to that point, maybe it's only Hey,
that's not base were no ghost runner.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, it's a totally agree the ghost runner is a
little league grill because we need the field for some
of the next game at three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Neither is two forty five, and we got to get
this game over.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Either is is the is the proposal of the Golden Bat,
that the Golden bat comes into play.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm out, I'm done with baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Golden Bat's gonna do it for me that that
shouldn't and I know that. Let's see, see, we're not
really changing the game by having an umpire that's a
machine called the pitch.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What if they shortened the game, like, how was softball's
only seventy nine?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's got to be then all your records are irrelevant.
And if there's any sport that depends on records, it's baseball.
Baseball is always measured itself by records, even though it
probably shouldn't. Because Babe Bruth played in an era where
the pitcher's man was elevated and the ball was dead,
and he still hit seven hundred and fourteen home runs.
Of course, he was the strongest player on the team.
Even though he didn't look like.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And here's the other thing is how would a robot
umpire determine, you know, if a pitcher is possibly maybe
doctoring the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, that's why they'll still be a person out there
that's calling the balls and strikes, and they'll still check
your glove as you walk into the dugout to see
if you've got stubstance on it. It's not going to
be actual robots. It's going to be people that are
listening to a robot tell them what the call is.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Let's just get rid of baseball in general. Andy, And
at this point it's just going to be Savannah Banana.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Let's just have a I play baseball. We'll have nine
guys that are the robots playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Ty can be the commissioner. Just go load up MLB,
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
MLB?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The show twenty five? Now, there you go, There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But I well, we're still not manipulating the game itself
on the field, although we are in the extent that listen,
there's umpires. And this happened years ago in the in
the seventies and eighties. I think all ended like when
they went to the universal umpire rule. I think in
the mid nineties there were still some umpires that used
the big balloon chess protector.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, and that went away.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Basically the National League went away with it in the
mid eighties and then the American.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
League kind of slowly faded out.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If you were a veteran umpire that liked the balloon
chess protector that you that you held, then you are
allowed to keep it. I don't know, why do you
want to hold that thing. It weighed like twenty pounds.
Just put the thing on and then go out there
and call the game.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
One hundred mile hour fastballs to the chest. Andy, you
take one of those, I bet you you'll start wearing everything. Well,
but they have it underneath their their shirt anyway. Hey,
you ever taken one hundred mile now?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I don't intend to exactly shot by a pink
ball or or or a foul ball that comes off
the mask. As as Joe Caragiola used to say that,
it's like putting your head at a bell tower and
somebody ring the bell.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, so it's yeah, it's coming. You can like it
or you can.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Complain about it, but they're gonna do it, and it'll
come to a ballpark near you next year.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I mean, at least right now. It's it's being
implemented in the minors, so they can there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They're used to it as they come up.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, so they're used to it. It's just going to
take getting used to for somebody.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But here's Joe Tory has been famous for this line forever.
When you're trying to pitch, it doesn't have to be
a strike. It just has to look like one. Yeah,
that way you get the guy to swing. But if
I study you long enough and know that the first
two pitches you throw are never strikes, I'm gonna ste
up there with the bat on my shoulder and let
you get me in a two zero count. And then
(09:56):
I'm gonna determine are you going to throw a cookie
over the plate for me to hit so that you
get a strike, or should I keep the bat on
my shoulder and get to three and zero and eventually
draw a walk. And if the game becomes walks and
home runs, then and the game is twenty three to
twenty one in the seventh inning, we're gonna be out
there for longer than we were.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Before the pitch clock.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And to me, most of the time an umpire knows
who's pitching, and if they need the low strike, they're
gonna call the low strike all game long. The robot
umpire may not. And we we the players. Fifty sixty
seventy eighty years ago, each team had three or four
good ones and then a bunch of guys that were
(10:36):
just playing and making twenty bucks a game or whatever
it was, you know, three thousand a year on the team,
and so they sometimes they couldn't hit strikes. The worst
player on a Major League baseball team can hit a strike.
If it's done over the plate, they're gonna make contact,
and you have to avoid the middle of the plate.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's why they pitch corners, that's why they pitch edges.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And if they are not allowed to do that, then
we're gonna get a lot of a lot of hits
in a longer game. Speaking of baseball, the UTSA baseball
team is on its way to Los Angeles where they'll
play UCLA with a chance to go to Omaha in
the College World Series. I got a lot of thoughts
on that. We'll talk about it coming up next. It's
(11:15):
the Andy Everett Show on the Ticket
We are making changes to keep up with progress, and
it looks like next year.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
So is baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Robots are coming to baseball. AI is taking over Major
League Baseball.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Couldn't be worth andy? How could have Angel Hernandez back?
I would I'd rather have No, You wouldn't know.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
You wouldn't because Angel Hernandez would get overturned on every
call and they would get the call right, so they'd
have unlimited challenges and a game would take six hours
to play.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
But anyway, I am just going to have to embrace it.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I decided back about six seven years ago, about two
years or two or three years before baseball went to
the Universal DH, that picture should no longer bat and
I've I've told this story before, but Masha here at.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Tanaka was playing for the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
The opposing pitchers should have been fired for walking him,
which he did. So he walks because he didn't even
swing the day he had the bat on his shoulders.
All other guy to do is pump three right down
the middle because he wasn't gonna swing, and he somehow
walked to Naka. There was a hit to the outfield,
so he moved up to second. There was another hit
(01:18):
to the outfield. So he moved up to third, and
there was a sacrifice flight of the warning track and
he scored and pulled both hamstrings and was out for
two months. And I said, right then and there, pitchers
should never be on the bases and they should never hit,
no matter how good of a hitter they are.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
So there's change about.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But the robots are coming to Major League Baseball next year,
and the way it works, as it was tested in
spring training, is that the umpire will have an earpiece
and as soon as the pitch happens, the robot will
tell you whether it's a ball or a strike, and
that's what the umpire will call. And if you, as
a player, don't think that it was a baller a strike,
(01:56):
you can challenge and they'll go to the video thing
that we see now and see if it clipped the
corner or it clipped the bottom half of the plate
or wherever it needs to be, and if you got
it right, then you get to retain your challenge, and
each team will have two challenges per game. Now we've
taken the human element out of calling the game, we're
still going to We still have video on safe for
(02:18):
out at first base, or any other base But here's
one of the things I'm really interested in seeing, not
just in spring training, but overall throughout the entire season.
One of the things that Major League Baseball has done
a great job of is the pitch clock has forced
the game to be sped up, and games that took
three and a half to four hours now take two
(02:39):
and a half to three hours. We also make the
pitcher pitch to at least three batters, so teams can't
stack their roster with fourteen pitchers and in late innings
change every batter. So that's a good thing to help
speed up pace a play and not have all the
breaks in a game that cause the time limit to
go further? Do we as a society have an attention
(03:02):
deficit syndrome issue going on? As we age as a
society now, not necessarily older people, but certainly younger kids
don't want to spend as much time doing something as
they did before, and our attention span is less and
less every time that we.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Get into the next year.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
So that's part of the reason why Major League Baseball
did that. They don't want you to pitch to one
batter and then take a two and a half minute
break until you change pitchers and he warms up and
they go out and pitch again. So this is going
to happen, and I'm interested. But here's what I'm interested
in seeing. There are pitchers that like a high strike zone.
They want the letters called because that's where they feel
(03:41):
like they're the most effective. There are pitchers that can
throw backdoor breaking balls and back door sliders that look
like they're about to hit the batter and then they
cross the plate. And there are also pitchers like sinker
ball and secret slider pitchers that like to work either
the corners or like to work the bottom half of
the plate. And they know when they get into in
(04:02):
a game the tendency for each umpire and how they
call a game. And if an umpire does not give
you the knee high strike or just below the knees,
then that's going to be a harder game for you
to pitch. And let's say you're a sinker ball pitcher
that needs the knee high strike on every pitch. If
you don't get the knee pitch and you have to
elevate the ball a little bit, you're going to get hit.
(04:25):
And their studies in Major League Baseball that have shown
that if if the ball misses the plate, remember misses
the spot in which you're trying to pitch to by
as much as a half an inch throwing it as
hard as you can from sixty feet six inches, that
that's the difference between.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Swing and miss, a foul ball and a home run.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And they have done studies on this, and they did
it particularly on Aaron Judge once and if the ball
was elevated or moved in any direction by less than
an inch, he would have probably hit the ball out
of the par or at least gotten.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
The base hit out of it.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
So my question is, are we going to eliminate pictures
that don't throw the ball over the middle of the plate,
because it doesn't have to be a strike, it just
has to look like one. And if you are a
player that knows that a certain player doesn't necessarily throw
a lot of strikes, you have to go up there swing. Now,
(05:23):
you can take two or three pitches, and if it's
a two zero count or three to zero count, and
that pitcher is still going to nibble a little bit,
you're probably going to walk a lot. And my concern
about not having human beings umpire game and having robots
do it is that we're going to have a lot
more walks, or we're going to have a lot more
home runs and hits because pitchers are going to have
(05:43):
to put the ball out over the plate and see
if the guy can hit it, and most of the
time they will. And it doesn't matter whether it's being
pitched at eighty seven or one hundred and seven major
League Baseball players. If it's over the middle of the plate,
there's going to be contact, and quite often it's going
to be contact in play.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, I mean, at this point we've talked about it
so many times with the analytics, Andy, that chicks dig
the long ball. There's no such thing as singles, doubles
or triples anymore. So who cares that there? Who cares
if there's live umpires or robot umpire?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
What what are we going to start complaining again? When
the scores are seventeen to fifteen and they take four
hours to play.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Then Rob Manford will come up with some other reason
and some other you know, explanation to try to shorten
the game even more. You know, I could see a scenario, Andy,
to where instead of having three outs in inning, if
if we get to that point, maybe it's only Hey,
that's not base were no ghost runner.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, it's a totally agree the ghost runner is a
little league grill because we need the field for some
of the next game at three o'clock.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Neither is two forty five, and we got to get
this game over.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Either is is the is the proposal of the Golden Bat,
that the Golden bat comes into play.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
I'm out, I'm done with baseball.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
The Golden Bat's gonna do it for me that that
shouldn't and I know that. Let's see, see, we're not
really changing the game by having an umpire that's a
machine called the pitch.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
What if they shortened the game, like, how was softball's
only seventy nine?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
It's got to be then all your records are irrelevant.
And if there's any sport that depends on records, it's baseball.
Baseball is always measured itself by records, even though it
probably shouldn't. Because Babe Bruth played in an era where
the pitcher's man was elevated and the ball was dead,
and he still hit seven hundred and fourteen home runs.
Of course, he was the strongest player on the team.
Even though he didn't look like.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
And here's the other thing is how would a robot
umpire determine, you know, if a pitcher is possibly maybe
doctoring the ball.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Well, that's why they'll still be a person out there
that's calling the balls and strikes, and they'll still check
your glove as you walk into the dugout to see
if you've got stubstance on it. It's not going to
be actual robots. It's going to be people that are
listening to a robot tell them what the call is.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Let's just get rid of baseball in general. Andy, And
at this point it's just going to be Savannah Banana.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Let's just have a I play baseball. We'll have nine
guys that are the robots playing baseball.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Ty can be the commissioner. Just go load up MLB,
What is it?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
MLB?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
The show twenty five? Now, there you go, There you go.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
But I well, we're still not manipulating the game itself
on the field, although we are in the extent that listen,
there's umpires. And this happened years ago in the in
the seventies and eighties. I think all ended like when
they went to the universal umpire rule. I think in
the mid nineties there were still some umpires that used
the big balloon chess protector.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yes, and that went away.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Basically the National League went away with it in the
mid eighties and then the American.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
League kind of slowly faded out.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
If you were a veteran umpire that liked the balloon
chess protector that you that you held, then you are
allowed to keep it. I don't know, why do you
want to hold that thing. It weighed like twenty pounds.
Just put the thing on and then go out there
and call the game.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
One hundred mile hour fastballs to the chest. Andy, you
take one of those, I bet you you'll start wearing everything. Well,
but they have it underneath their their shirt anyway. Hey,
you ever taken one hundred mile now?
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I don't intend to exactly shot by a pink
ball or or or a foul ball that comes off
the mask. As as Joe Caragiola used to say that,
it's like putting your head at a bell tower and
somebody ring the bell.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, so it's yeah, it's coming. You can like it
or you can.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Complain about it, but they're gonna do it, and it'll
come to a ballpark near you next year.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
And I mean, at least right now. It's it's being
implemented in the minors, so they can there.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
They're used to it as they come up.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Yeah, so they're used to it. It's just going to
take getting used to for somebody.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
But here's Joe Tory has been famous for this line forever.
When you're trying to pitch, it doesn't have to be
a strike. It just has to look like one. Yeah,
that way you get the guy to swing. But if
I study you long enough and know that the first
two pitches you throw are never strikes, I'm gonna ste
up there with the bat on my shoulder and let
you get me in a two zero count. And then
(09:56):
I'm gonna determine are you going to throw a cookie
over the plate for me to hit so that you
get a strike, or should I keep the bat on
my shoulder and get to three and zero and eventually
draw a walk. And if the game becomes walks and
home runs, then and the game is twenty three to
twenty one in the seventh inning, we're gonna be out
there for longer than we were.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Before the pitch clock.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
And to me, most of the time an umpire knows
who's pitching, and if they need the low strike, they're
gonna call the low strike all game long. The robot
umpire may not. And we we the players. Fifty sixty
seventy eighty years ago, each team had three or four
good ones and then a bunch of guys that were
(10:36):
just playing and making twenty bucks a game or whatever
it was, you know, three thousand a year on the team,
and so they sometimes they couldn't hit strikes. The worst
player on a Major League baseball team can hit a strike.
If it's done over the plate, they're gonna make contact,
and you have to avoid the middle of the plate.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
That's why they pitch corners, that's why they pitch edges.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
And if they are not allowed to do that, then
we're gonna get a lot of a lot of hits
in a longer game. Speaking of baseball, the UTSA baseball
team is on its way to Los Angeles where they'll
play UCLA with a chance to go to Omaha in
the College World Series. I got a lot of thoughts
on that. We'll talk about it coming up next. It's
(11:15):
the Andy Everett Show on the Ticket
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