September 24, 2025 • 15 mins
The boys discuss the new ABS system coming to MLB for the 2026 season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
We love Tony and the boys. Can't say enough about
Tire Depot. Today's first DIBs question of the day has
been going around the baseball community. It was here for
the spring training and then we were talking about it,
we were yelling about it. Then it went away, and
now right before the playoffs, Rob Manford made it clear
(00:43):
that automatic balls and strike system aka robo umps will
be in effect for twenty twenty six. Now, let me
explain this to the people, because I don't know if
people are understanding what it actually is. It's not RoboCop
that's going out there standing behind all boy going wow, striank.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's not like that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's not like this laser box that you see on
television either. That's going to be seen from the fans
in the stands, people in Connecticut got a taste of
it a little bit when the New Britain Bes had
it in their system. Like Independent Ball was the first
place we were doing the experiments for the ABS system. Now,
if people remember, on those systems, a bounced ball in
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the zone was called a strike. High strikes on people
that are five foot two were called, low strikes on
people that were six foot five were called So there
were some things they had to tinker with, and I
still think there were things they can tinker with. I
haven't seen what it looks like since the New Britain
Be's in action. I've only seen what happened this spring training.
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Here's how it works. Pitch tracking. There's going to be
multiple cameras around the stadium that's going to track the
trajectory of the location of the pitch. Cameras are actually
called hawkeye cameras.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They're gonna be all over. It's not just gonna be one.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's gonna be a combined sort of cameras like we
see in the NFL. Like we see a lot of
people are saying this is like the tennis in or
out system kinda and I say kind of, because Henry,
your strike zone is different than my strike zone, even
though we're somewhat the same height, Like your stuff could
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be a little bit higher, a little bit lower. The
plate's obviously not going to change the width of the plate.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Alex. How tall are you, Alex? Five foot?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Dare you? Even? Five?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Five foot four? Okay five to four. I'm six' one.
Your strike zone is definitely different from my strike zone. Now,
that's just just something to keep in mind. And that's
why it's different than tennis. Tennis courts never gonna change,
the ball size, never gonna change. You can do you know,
Henry versus Ben, and you can do that tracking system
whether it's that or Serena versus Venus like, it's the
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same thing, not to depending on.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The side of the player.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So that's how that the pitch tracking is gonna be
through those cameras. It's gonna have a virtual strike zone,
strike zones determined for each batter, and how they get
these heights and weights is in minor leagues and its
spring training. So every year, I guess they're gonna you
better do this. Every year, people shrink, people grow. I mean,
we're talking about twenty year olds and forty year olds
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like things happen to the body. So everyone in Major
League Baseball, it's gonna have an at bat, is going
to get measured for their strike zone. There's some fun.
Can we watch these Houston Astros, by the way, get measured.
I'm gonna need some full transparency on some of these teams.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Human umpire calls. We're still gonna have the human umpire
home plate. When you look at a baseball game, it's
not gonna look any different than what you've seen in
twenty twenty five. It's gonna look exactly the same. Here's
what's different is the challenging challenges initiated. If a batter, pitcher,
or catcher disagrees with the call, they can immediately signal
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for the challenge by tapping their hat or their helmet.
That's gonna be a new thing to get used to too.
And we kind of saw a little bit of this
in spring training baseball, and this is gonna slow things down.
I'm just asking it's not Alex. You don't think it's
gonna slow things I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think they only have a few seconds after the
pitch is thrown to signal if they want to challenge,
and if they don't, then they can't challenge it, so
they'll take the manager review have a few seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The Hawkeye system compares the pitch's location to the strike zone,
and a graphic on the pitch will be displayed on
the scoreboard like we see in tennis. This is a
lot of the same correlation, and I think that's gonna
be great as well, because I love the one thing
I do like and I've always said this, like NCAA,
March Madness does this for me than anything else. I
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don't know if you guys have ever been in a
building we had March Madness twenty eighteen downtown Hartford. If
you're in that building, you may have noticed this. I've
always noticed this in college men's basketball and conference games,
and during March Madness games, I feel like the home
video board operator has been told to not embarrass the
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referee in any circumstance.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And there's so many calls it's like, oh, let's see
the replay.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Oh, you're just gonna show that March Madness placard again.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's oh the kiss cam all of a sudden, Okay,
like that happens all the time, and I love how
Major League Baseball has said that they're gonna throw this
stuff on the scoreboard because I love it too in tennis.
Like in tennis, it's kind of a thing like, ah, judge,
that's another one.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Judge, that's another one, and you just get some ribbing
from the fan base.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The result is displayed and the challenge is successful or
if it's overturned. Here's some of the features. There's team challenges.
Each team starts with two challenges a game. They retain
their challenges if they're successful. No dugout assistance. That's something
that's going to be very fascinating. If you get dugout
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assistance and how you police it. Only a pitcher, catcher,
or batter can challenge a call. They cannot receive help
from chatter from the dugout. They could not receive help
from the first to third baseman or the first third
baseman coach. That cannot happen. They alone have to make
that challenge, which is very interesting and different than the
NFL because in the NFL, if you remember in the.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Super Bowl, who's the man up front? Jones?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Chris Jones, Kansas City defensive leader. He wanted to challenge
a spot in the first quarter of the Super Bowl
and did, and it was like a moot point. And
I remember the coaching staff as Spagnola and Andy Reid
going crazy, why dude, you're wasting this challenge now? And
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like in the NFL, there's this back and forth quarterback,
no linebacker, whoever's got the green dot people eye in
the sky, you should challenge that you shouldn't. We have
it in Major League Baseball when it's just regular plays,
you should challenge that you shouldn't. So if the batter's
not gonna have that, man, you know there's guys out there,
my man Jave Bayez is gonna be using all them
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challenges for you in his first at bat and you
ain't nothing to say.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
An ignite any coming around and all these bad calls
all So like this is where I think there's like
a two sides to this, where like, yeah, okay, you
want to get it right, except for like at the
whole course of the game, like you really don't want
to get at all right because if you did, we'd.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Be stopping down every single second. You're only giving so
many challenges that's gonna be something to watch. The other
thing I think is gonna be something to watch. Is
the technology are these strike zones where they say they are.
Is the technology up to snuff completely? Are people going
to have complaints? Well, because Rob says this about mile
per hour? Where are they getting that? Are they getting
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it from the hand, are they getting it in the
middle of the pitch. Are they getting it right at
the plate? There's big differences. Some places are different than others.
Paul Skins might throw one on one at this part,
but he only throws ninety eight at another. But it's
the same velocity. There's gonna be just arguments on that,
all right, Alex Screen, You're totally for this man.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You are one hundred now, you're the youngest dude in
the studio for this ABS system.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Why I like I said before, I've just seen so
many games this season where an umpire has missed a
blatant strike called a blatant ball a strike, and those
have been big. There have been times when it's been
in a big situation. So I think I like the transparency.
I like that only the batter's fielder or catcher a
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pitcher can do. I like the day they can't get
helping the dugout. I don't think it's going to slow
the game down all that much. We saw it in
spring training. It's very quick with the technology up on
the screen, seeing if it's a ball a strike, and
going back to the game. And I think it'll limit
the amount of mistakes the umpires make or correct the
amount of mistakes umpires make in big situations and big
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moments of the game.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm wondering if you're gonna miss some of the stuff
I was talking with Bob Joyce with with like, my
favorite part of a Major League Baseball game is right
now this season is when Aaron Boone throws his gum
and goes out and starts yelling at the umpire right
or wrong, whatever he's talking about. Not a Yankees fan,
not a Yankees complete hater. I think that's the best
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entertainment we got right now in Major League Baseball for
Yankees fans.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But if you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Take that away, oh my gosh, I think you're still
gonna have some little arguments, but you're falling in the
category of we need to get it right because these
games are too important, there's too much on the line.
I've got an idea, and I don't know if this
is gonna work or not if you want to chime
in on this topic. The next couple sentence, we're just
gonna be talking baseball eight six zero five two two
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three seven seven six fy two two three seven seven six.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Is our phone number. Give us a call if you
want to talk about this. What if?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And I think this with all sports, and I know
it's done in a way behind the scenes. I know
the NFL a little bit, but we always say this
umpire was graded, and this guy was graded this, this
guy was graded that. I think with every sport these
grades should be public, like you're putting the thing on
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the scoreboard, like you're gonna put the review on the scoreboard,
but you're not gonna put the umpire stats on the scoreboard.
What if we did this like every year you start
off with a clean slate.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You're an umpire.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're at zero's right, everybody, You're a Major League Baseball empire.
You're your umpire association. Your union has already decided you
are the goods man. You're one of the how many
we got let's say three hundred, You're one of the
three hundred umpires that make the cut. You're at zero's
though today here's your assignment. Now, here's your assignment. This
you get like twenty assignments right off the bat. After
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those twenty assignments, after one assignment, your.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Stats are on the board.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I know the percentage of balls and strikes, like Bob
was saying, they're still ninety percent correct. But when I'm
looking at ninety eight versus ninety two and it's my
team and I think we're getting screwed, there's just something
for the fan there, and there's something like you're trying
to say, Alex, we're trying to get these guys better.
We're trying to hold them accountable. Now with your percentage
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as an umpire again and how good you are. This
lets fans know before the game even starts who the
top six umpires are, and those guys will get the
World Series and like so on and so forth, so
the next twelve will get alcs NLCS, and those umpiring
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assignments are worth more money.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I would I would just wonder, or why we don't
do it merit based like that, Like.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
We've got all these stats, We've got exit v loo
for everybody. We're about to measure everybody's knees, da' nips,
We're about to go knees DA nips measuring session on
a single a.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Player all the way through the bigs. Probably some coaches too,
just in case they want to jump in that batter's box.
We need to get your knees D nips, sir. We
got to measure all these strike zones. We got to
get it down to the and we got to get
it right.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yet we can't tell you game day, real time how
good these umpires have been this year. I call bs
on that man, like I want total accountability. I want
to know the stats of umpires, and I want their
success and how good they call a game given them
the next big assignment.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Because you're right, Alex, Like when I.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
See my team get ripped in a big moment where
they need that win, and like Ian happ is just
spending the whole celebration yelling at the umpire, I'm thinking
about my Cubs right now, Like, yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Burns me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Now I'm different because I like people's demise and I
enjoy at revel in their frustration with the call, and
I think that's good entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I just feel like there's a way we can.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Watch these guys hold them accountable, get their stats, because
it will go the other way too for the umpires.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It might go even better for the umpires.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Like, look, man, I'm the best in the league, right,
I'm top ten in the league.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm top ten percent in the league. How dare you
question my call? Henry?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Just sitting all the way over there in the dugout,
how can you see up and down, left or right?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You can't see that I'm here. I'm good.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Look at my stats, check my stats. I think that
would go a long way with the fan base getting
these umpires better. And I just don't want to live
in a world where we're so reliant on all these
computers for everything. And I think about I just think
about being a kid, and I think about getting screwed
over by the hometown cop that's umpiring our little league game,
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and like, DEM's the breaks, kids, Yeah, that guy doesn't
like your dad, and you got.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Called a strike on that one. Deal with it. There's
just something about that that I love in sports, the
getting screwed over or.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
The human element of things that Yeah, it may have
not been the letter of the law, it may have
not been an actual strike. Oh well, wasn't it fun?
Wasn't that a good time? I just think all the
time when we argue about the littlest details of what
a catch is, what not a catch is in the NFL,
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did this guy step out of bounds with the side
of his foot on that one white piece of glass?
I always just think, how in the hell did we
do it back then? How did my middle school football
team get through forty minutes of football without any with
like two refs? Like two refs, Mom and dad holding
the chains like we were able to make it happen
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that way. But somehow we need all this technology for everything.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I know there's gonna be unintended consequences. I know that
these challenges are going to come into play. I know
your boy Juan Soto is going to be arguing a
lot of these doing oh yeah, using up all the challenges.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We'll see how it goes. Man. But twenty twenty six
is right around the corner.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But this, I think he throws this bomb, Manford, that is,
throws this bomb in the middle of one of the
best weeks ever for this is not the week for this,
Like we should not be arguing about the arguing of
balls and strikes. We should be talking about the Hunt
for October because it's going to be a lot of
fun tonight and through the rest of the week.
So he has DIBs your respectives, don't you.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:22):
Man.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
We love Tony and the boys. Can't say enough about
Tire Depot. Today's first DIBs question of the day has
been going around the baseball community. It was here for
the spring training and then we were talking about it,
we were yelling about it. Then it went away, and
now right before the playoffs, Rob Manford made it clear
(00:43):
that automatic balls and strike system aka robo umps will
be in effect for twenty twenty six. Now, let me
explain this to the people, because I don't know if
people are understanding what it actually is. It's not RoboCop
that's going out there standing behind all boy going wow, striank.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's not like that.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It's not like this laser box that you see on
television either. That's going to be seen from the fans
in the stands, people in Connecticut got a taste of
it a little bit when the New Britain Bes had
it in their system. Like Independent Ball was the first
place we were doing the experiments for the ABS system. Now,
if people remember, on those systems, a bounced ball in
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the zone was called a strike. High strikes on people
that are five foot two were called, low strikes on
people that were six foot five were called So there
were some things they had to tinker with, and I
still think there were things they can tinker with. I
haven't seen what it looks like since the New Britain
Be's in action. I've only seen what happened this spring training.
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Here's how it works. Pitch tracking. There's going to be
multiple cameras around the stadium that's going to track the
trajectory of the location of the pitch. Cameras are actually
called hawkeye cameras.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
They're gonna be all over. It's not just gonna be one.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It's gonna be a combined sort of cameras like we
see in the NFL. Like we see a lot of
people are saying this is like the tennis in or
out system kinda and I say kind of, because Henry,
your strike zone is different than my strike zone, even
though we're somewhat the same height, Like your stuff could
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be a little bit higher, a little bit lower. The
plate's obviously not going to change the width of the plate.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Alex. How tall are you, Alex? Five foot?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
What?
Speaker 3 (02:34):
Dare you? Even? Five?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Five foot four? Okay five to four. I'm six' one.
Your strike zone is definitely different from my strike zone. Now,
that's just just something to keep in mind. And that's
why it's different than tennis. Tennis courts never gonna change,
the ball size, never gonna change. You can do you know,
Henry versus Ben, and you can do that tracking system
whether it's that or Serena versus Venus like, it's the
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same thing, not to depending on.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
The side of the player.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
So that's how that the pitch tracking is gonna be
through those cameras. It's gonna have a virtual strike zone,
strike zones determined for each batter, and how they get
these heights and weights is in minor leagues and its
spring training. So every year, I guess they're gonna you
better do this. Every year, people shrink, people grow. I mean,
we're talking about twenty year olds and forty year olds
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like things happen to the body. So everyone in Major
League Baseball, it's gonna have an at bat, is going
to get measured for their strike zone. There's some fun.
Can we watch these Houston Astros, by the way, get measured.
I'm gonna need some full transparency on some of these teams.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Human umpire calls. We're still gonna have the human umpire
home plate. When you look at a baseball game, it's
not gonna look any different than what you've seen in
twenty twenty five. It's gonna look exactly the same. Here's
what's different is the challenging challenges initiated. If a batter, pitcher,
or catcher disagrees with the call, they can immediately signal
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for the challenge by tapping their hat or their helmet.
That's gonna be a new thing to get used to too.
And we kind of saw a little bit of this
in spring training baseball, and this is gonna slow things down.
I'm just asking it's not Alex. You don't think it's
gonna slow things I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I think they only have a few seconds after the
pitch is thrown to signal if they want to challenge,
and if they don't, then they can't challenge it, so
they'll take the manager review have a few seconds.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
The Hawkeye system compares the pitch's location to the strike zone,
and a graphic on the pitch will be displayed on
the scoreboard like we see in tennis. This is a
lot of the same correlation, and I think that's gonna
be great as well, because I love the one thing
I do like and I've always said this, like NCAA,
March Madness does this for me than anything else. I
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don't know if you guys have ever been in a
building we had March Madness twenty eighteen downtown Hartford. If
you're in that building, you may have noticed this. I've
always noticed this in college men's basketball and conference games,
and during March Madness games, I feel like the home
video board operator has been told to not embarrass the
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referee in any circumstance.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And there's so many calls it's like, oh, let's see
the replay.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Oh, you're just gonna show that March Madness placard again.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
That's oh the kiss cam all of a sudden, Okay,
like that happens all the time, and I love how
Major League Baseball has said that they're gonna throw this
stuff on the scoreboard because I love it too in tennis.
Like in tennis, it's kind of a thing like, ah, judge,
that's another one.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Judge, that's another one, and you just get some ribbing
from the fan base.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The result is displayed and the challenge is successful or
if it's overturned. Here's some of the features. There's team challenges.
Each team starts with two challenges a game. They retain
their challenges if they're successful. No dugout assistance. That's something
that's going to be very fascinating. If you get dugout
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assistance and how you police it. Only a pitcher, catcher,
or batter can challenge a call. They cannot receive help
from chatter from the dugout. They could not receive help
from the first to third baseman or the first third
baseman coach. That cannot happen. They alone have to make
that challenge, which is very interesting and different than the
NFL because in the NFL, if you remember in the.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Super Bowl, who's the man up front? Jones?
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Chris Jones, Kansas City defensive leader. He wanted to challenge
a spot in the first quarter of the Super Bowl
and did, and it was like a moot point. And
I remember the coaching staff as Spagnola and Andy Reid
going crazy, why dude, you're wasting this challenge now? And
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like in the NFL, there's this back and forth quarterback,
no linebacker, whoever's got the green dot people eye in
the sky, you should challenge that you shouldn't. We have
it in Major League Baseball when it's just regular plays,
you should challenge that you shouldn't. So if the batter's
not gonna have that, man, you know there's guys out there,
my man Jave Bayez is gonna be using all them
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challenges for you in his first at bat and you
ain't nothing to say.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
An ignite any coming around and all these bad calls
all So like this is where I think there's like
a two sides to this, where like, yeah, okay, you
want to get it right, except for like at the
whole course of the game, like you really don't want
to get at all right because if you did, we'd.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Be stopping down every single second. You're only giving so
many challenges that's gonna be something to watch. The other
thing I think is gonna be something to watch. Is
the technology are these strike zones where they say they are.
Is the technology up to snuff completely? Are people going
to have complaints? Well, because Rob says this about mile
per hour? Where are they getting that? Are they getting
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it from the hand, are they getting it in the
middle of the pitch. Are they getting it right at
the plate? There's big differences. Some places are different than others.
Paul Skins might throw one on one at this part,
but he only throws ninety eight at another. But it's
the same velocity. There's gonna be just arguments on that,
all right, Alex Screen, You're totally for this man.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
You are one hundred now, you're the youngest dude in
the studio for this ABS system.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Why I like I said before, I've just seen so
many games this season where an umpire has missed a
blatant strike called a blatant ball a strike, and those
have been big. There have been times when it's been
in a big situation. So I think I like the transparency.
I like that only the batter's fielder or catcher a
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pitcher can do. I like the day they can't get
helping the dugout. I don't think it's going to slow
the game down all that much. We saw it in
spring training. It's very quick with the technology up on
the screen, seeing if it's a ball a strike, and
going back to the game. And I think it'll limit
the amount of mistakes the umpires make or correct the
amount of mistakes umpires make in big situations and big
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moments of the game.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I'm wondering if you're gonna miss some of the stuff
I was talking with Bob Joyce with with like, my
favorite part of a Major League Baseball game is right
now this season is when Aaron Boone throws his gum
and goes out and starts yelling at the umpire right
or wrong, whatever he's talking about. Not a Yankees fan,
not a Yankees complete hater. I think that's the best
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entertainment we got right now in Major League Baseball for
Yankees fans.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
But if you.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Take that away, oh my gosh, I think you're still
gonna have some little arguments, but you're falling in the
category of we need to get it right because these
games are too important, there's too much on the line.
I've got an idea, and I don't know if this
is gonna work or not if you want to chime
in on this topic. The next couple sentence, we're just
gonna be talking baseball eight six zero five two two
(10:03):
three seven seven six fy two two three seven seven six.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Is our phone number. Give us a call if you
want to talk about this. What if?
Speaker 1 (10:11):
And I think this with all sports, and I know
it's done in a way behind the scenes. I know
the NFL a little bit, but we always say this
umpire was graded, and this guy was graded this, this
guy was graded that. I think with every sport these
grades should be public, like you're putting the thing on
(10:33):
the scoreboard, like you're gonna put the review on the scoreboard,
but you're not gonna put the umpire stats on the scoreboard.
What if we did this like every year you start
off with a clean slate.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You're an umpire.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You're at zero's right, everybody, You're a Major League Baseball empire.
You're your umpire association. Your union has already decided you
are the goods man. You're one of the how many
we got let's say three hundred, You're one of the
three hundred umpires that make the cut. You're at zero's
though today here's your assignment. Now, here's your assignment. This
you get like twenty assignments right off the bat. After
(11:07):
those twenty assignments, after one assignment, your.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Stats are on the board.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
I know the percentage of balls and strikes, like Bob
was saying, they're still ninety percent correct. But when I'm
looking at ninety eight versus ninety two and it's my
team and I think we're getting screwed, there's just something
for the fan there, and there's something like you're trying
to say, Alex, we're trying to get these guys better.
We're trying to hold them accountable. Now with your percentage
(11:33):
as an umpire again and how good you are. This
lets fans know before the game even starts who the
top six umpires are, and those guys will get the
World Series and like so on and so forth, so
the next twelve will get alcs NLCS, and those umpiring
(11:55):
assignments are worth more money.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
I would I would just wonder, or why we don't
do it merit based like that, Like.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
We've got all these stats, We've got exit v loo
for everybody. We're about to measure everybody's knees, da' nips,
We're about to go knees DA nips measuring session on
a single a.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Player all the way through the bigs. Probably some coaches too,
just in case they want to jump in that batter's box.
We need to get your knees D nips, sir. We
got to measure all these strike zones. We got to
get it down to the and we got to get
it right.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Yet we can't tell you game day, real time how
good these umpires have been this year. I call bs
on that man, like I want total accountability. I want
to know the stats of umpires, and I want their
success and how good they call a game given them
the next big assignment.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Because you're right, Alex, Like when I.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
See my team get ripped in a big moment where
they need that win, and like Ian happ is just
spending the whole celebration yelling at the umpire, I'm thinking
about my Cubs right now, Like, yeah, it.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Burns me a little bit.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Now I'm different because I like people's demise and I
enjoy at revel in their frustration with the call, and
I think that's good entertainment.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I just feel like there's a way we can.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Watch these guys hold them accountable, get their stats, because
it will go the other way too for the umpires.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
It might go even better for the umpires.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Like, look, man, I'm the best in the league, right,
I'm top ten in the league.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
I'm top ten percent in the league. How dare you
question my call? Henry?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Just sitting all the way over there in the dugout,
how can you see up and down, left or right?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
You can't see that I'm here. I'm good.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Look at my stats, check my stats. I think that
would go a long way with the fan base getting
these umpires better. And I just don't want to live
in a world where we're so reliant on all these
computers for everything. And I think about I just think
about being a kid, and I think about getting screwed
over by the hometown cop that's umpiring our little league game,
(14:01):
and like, DEM's the breaks, kids, Yeah, that guy doesn't
like your dad, and you got.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Called a strike on that one. Deal with it. There's
just something about that that I love in sports, the
getting screwed over or.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
The human element of things that Yeah, it may have
not been the letter of the law, it may have
not been an actual strike. Oh well, wasn't it fun?
Wasn't that a good time? I just think all the
time when we argue about the littlest details of what
a catch is, what not a catch is in the NFL,
(14:36):
did this guy step out of bounds with the side
of his foot on that one white piece of glass?
I always just think, how in the hell did we
do it back then? How did my middle school football
team get through forty minutes of football without any with
like two refs? Like two refs, Mom and dad holding
the chains like we were able to make it happen
(14:58):
that way. But somehow we need all this technology for everything.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
I know there's gonna be unintended consequences. I know that
these challenges are going to come into play. I know
your boy Juan Soto is going to be arguing a
lot of these doing oh yeah, using up all the challenges.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
We'll see how it goes. Man. But twenty twenty six
is right around the corner.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
But this, I think he throws this bomb, Manford, that is,
throws this bomb in the middle of one of the
best weeks ever for this is not the week for this,
Like we should not be arguing about the arguing of
balls and strikes. We should be talking about the Hunt
for October because it's going to be a lot of
fun tonight and through the rest of the week.
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