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July 20, 2025 11 mins
Robot Umpires & the Hit-Off of the MLB All-Star game.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Killing their way along with Shane Carter as we get
you to your Sunday fun days, whatever that may be,
from chilling pool side or having a couple of drinks
with your friends. We'll get you there this morning. That's
our job and that's what we're going to do. It's
kind of midsummer, it's kind of you know, a lot
of things in the sports world, and you know a

(00:25):
lot to get to. You know, we've got the All
Star Game that we're going to talk about here in
a second. We also have the SEC media days to
talk about. We're also going to overreact to you know,
who's going to win the SEC already. And I've got
my thoughts on Archie Manning and there could be a
conspiracy going on with that, and of course we'll get
into that.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I maintain, and I think you've kind of come to
my line of thinking he's getting a little bit too
much overhyped.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Firmly, like he stated that he was getting over hyped. Yeah,
and I gotta give it.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
But you even said like he's gonna be the number
one pick, and you even come to my way of
thinking of like it's way.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Too early for that. But that's what the media wants.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
But I think the first two quarterbacks drafted could SEC
this year, but they not.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Arch Man, that's a little teacher for you. Yeah, okay,
look at you with your little teas as well. I'm
such a teacher. Sean's growing up big now.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Speaking of pulling away, Scheffler, by the way, has dropped
a shot by the way, uh huh and got her
up in but got her.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Up and Lee have jumped up.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's now a five stroke difference in the Open Championship,
even though Scheffler just split it right down the path.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
You know, I'm watching Rory right now.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
This man has been in so many side paths and
so many wrong ways. He really loves his fans because
all of his golf shots this week are going right
to him. Yeah, and he just totally uh, he totally
pulled a Dillan. He totally pulled a Dylan on this shot.
That what you would do, oh man. Yeah, and Andy
ever would be so proud of that. We're talking golf
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I know he's probably smiling wherever he's at. Speaking up.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
By the way, a little breaking news for the show.
It's a fanatics takeover the next two days on the show.
I will be feeling in filling in from four to
seven Monday and Tuesday of this next week, so you
get to hear this lovely sounds of my voice.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Anyways, So the NLB All Star Game that was held
in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah on Tuesday, Yeah, Monday was the home runner what
was it, the Big Dumpster?

Speaker 3 (02:17):
What's his name, The Big Dumper, the Big Jumper. Yeah, yeah,
I've heard it's because he's got a big old butt. Yeah.
Well the thing is, and then he's been kind of
a surprise player.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah. But it was so funny because it's like I
knew about him. It's like some channel energy. It's just
you know, it was, you know, the Big Dumper wins
the home run Derby, which was so cool because there
was a video.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
Of him when he was little. Yeah, talking to he
was like.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Kind of rapping, I'm the home run Derby Champ. I'm
the home run Derby Champ. And look at him now,
he's living his dream. I hit dingers, hit dingers.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Gotta love that kid. Where did that kid go? I mean,
I had surely baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
A lot of those players in the Little League Old
Series do actually end up playing baseball, but not all
To make the show.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
A lot of them play like double A and triple A. Yeah.
So uh the big dumpster dump dump whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
And right now he and Aaron Judge both are both
this is huge favors al MVP.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
They are.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
And I got a chance to watch Aaron Judge and so,
hey see I said it right now, didn't I even
though I want.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
To go show it. Yeah, but you do it on purpose.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
I do it show hey o Tawny uh played And
of course these guys, Dude, Aaron Judge just looks like
a giant out there. He's like what six six I'm
like with a baby face. You know, if I worked out,
I'd look like him. I don't work out.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Why don't even work out? I work out a little.
I run a little. I did officiate last night. You
have time to work out.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
That was the fourth official last night, you know? So
I was fourth official last night? And what what did
you think of just speaking officiate? What do you think
of the robot umpires?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
You're gonna I mean, it's it's it's I don't I
missed the huge I've had.

Speaker 1 (04:02):
A good discussion about var okay, I officiate soccer, Yes,
right now, soccer does use VAR in some leagues, not
all leagues. Uh, in the league that I'm in right now,
we don't use VAR. Officials make mistakes and there's different angles,
there's different this. There's different that you know. And my

(04:23):
game last night was a championship game. And you know, really,
my guy, I gotta give them props. Hobby who who
is also ress National Games. He was the ref and
and he made a clean game when you know, we
always ask for feedback. A reffing world is a different world,
you know, because we see the game different. We have

(04:45):
no fan favorites, we have no sides. And trust me,
for those of you who think, oh, well, you know
this cruise from San Antonio, they're gonna.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Officiate lighter, look stop with that. It's not the case.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
I mean, I could be so mad about the Gold
Cup because the Costa Rica var official was Yeah, the
VAR official was from Costa Rica. Costa Rica lost to
the United States and the quarterfinals. I could say that, No,
it's you're you're officiating and you are looked at from
that perspective.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
So in Tasso, which is the high school soccer, my
daughter plays high school soccer as well. I am not
allowed to officiate north side games because she plays in
the north Side district. I cannot officiate north side games
because they feel that I could corrupt the system. Right,
so we're categorized like not that we would, but that's

(05:37):
the way it is. Now, this whole challenging with the
catcher and the you know, I don't like it.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
Get rid of the umpire. Then have you seen what
these guys go through?

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Has anybody gone through a ref class or certification course?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Okay they haven't. I have.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
But the va RS though, and like the thing that
the thing that's gonna come down. Honestly, the biggest issue
is gonna be like those hairline strikes, those hits down
the middle, like.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
The hairline off side at a certain point.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
What they're gonna do, and they do this in tennis,
by the way, is they're gonna put it. They're gonna
put something in the ball that aligns with the with
the bat. They're doing top golf, right, they didn't top golf,
which is gonna like which is like if you if
you ever watched tennis, like they literally have like a
little shadow that follows.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
With the ball laying on the line, and is it accurate? Uh,
it's accurate enough that they don't They don't challenge, So
is it accurate?

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Because I'm saying to you, is this computer gonna be accurate?
Are we gonna be in Game seven in the World
Series and all of a sudden the batter doesn't swing,
Let me ask and the catcher says, do you go
to Let me.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Ask you this though?

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Would you if if if the World Series came now,
let's say you're Baltimore Oiel sometime in the next ten
years came to the gots of the World Series Game
seven nine, bomb of the Knife, two outs and it
all comes down to an out or a potential run
at home to win or lose the game. Are you
willing to put that in the hands of human airs
or technology?

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yes, just like they did with a perfect game. If
that was the case, then we would have challenges there.
You remember that.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Umpire that blew the perfect game against it. It was
a Chicago White Sox player right to the twenty eighth
out game and and he he did blow that, and
he played it, I know, and he regretted it. And
you know what, the player took the higher road, shook
his hand. The next day, dude, we all make mistakes,
of course.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
To that road like he has nothing to lose on that.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
But my thing is to say you're taking away human error,
which people are like, well, Dylan, that dude, I want
human error because guess what, You're gonna start killing my
show because then I can't argue like, hey that was
a ball, Hey that was a strike.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
You're killing the opinionated people. Right, people make mistakes.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
An umpire has a different strike zone, you would have
a different strike zone. Then I would have a different
strike zone, right, I see things differently, So do you sure?

Speaker 3 (07:40):
So a computer is going to.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
See what it's.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Going to align us, right, yeah, it's gonna be like hey,
but here's the thing in refing in the game, Like,
for example, I was a fourth official last night, right,
the fourth official is the guys that you see on
the sidelines that take care of both coaches. They take
care of the substitutions, they take care of the goals
scored and what meant they were scored. But we also officiate,

(08:03):
believe it or not, we are an official, right, we
get to actually see stuff when it comes in our direction.
Our center tells us, hey, in that quadrant, I need
your eyes.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
You tell me right.

Speaker 1 (08:13):
We have comms, we have everything that we have the
officiating in soccer in the NFL, and we have all
this communication and then we go by a computer because
we have a striker or somebody or a picture saying well, no,
you're wrong, dude.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
We've been wrong a lot.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
But I can tell you this, the officials, there's courses
these umpires, they're not going to be wrong a lot.
Everybody thinks that the umpires are just gonna get you know,
they have terrible calls when they start challenging this stuff
and the computer's like, no, keep's right, it's going to stop, right.
And you've heard some of the umpires, right, they've been

(08:55):
miked up and they've challenged stuff. And then like the
umpires actually joke like like I said.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
It was a.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Strike, right, Because when you're an official, it's your job
to make sure that you're on point.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
You have to be on point every game.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
And I've never seen like an NFL official Like I
give NFL officials credit all the time for what they
see and even when it's challenged, I'm like, dude, and
they're right there, right, they're along the lines, they're along
the sidelines. Again, you have an umpire that sits right
behind the catcher, right behind them, and he probably explains

(09:33):
his strike zone to him all the time. That's why
we always see the catchers do what they move their
mid up real quick, right, Yeah, because they're thinking.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
That the umpire blinked.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I can tell you this, the guys that stand behind
the plate, how much experience they have come on man.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, I mean there's also like instances of relief at
your job, you.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Know, and that's what's coming. And I just don't like it.
I like the human error.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
I know we're coming up on against the break, but
I have and because don't the All Star Game, did
you like a lot A lot of people don't like
to hit off. I loved the way it ended like that.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Yeah, it was all right, you know, but there's a
lot of drama.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Coyle s forber three home runs and Ran deliberately did that,
by the way, liberly did what THRO like.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
No, they deliberately tied the.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Game because the NL was dominating that game were and
then for it to.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
And they al came back in with one out in
the knife.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Yeah, and then as Onneio Cruz brought brought in, Uh,
I forgot who he brought in, but like and they
tied it up right, and then that was that. That
was that's the game you want. And ye I'm I'm
actually okay with the fact that they didn't end it
in an extra ends honestly, you know, yeah, I mean,
you don't need that with an All Star game, No
you don't.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
And I get that, and it's fun and you know,
it was good for the fans to see. But I
still think that that game was deliberately set up so
we could have the extra inning games.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
But to go back to this whole va r, Yes, it's.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
Going to exist because sometimes you just have to have
fans and coaches shut up. But at the same time,
I think for the refs it's a good thing because
I guess you can make a bad call. But I'm
against it because I feel that the ref organization in
leagues is against it because again, why do we do
so why do we work so hard to get to

(11:13):
where we are, Because you can't just be an official overnight.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Fellas.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
I'll challenge each and every one of you, in fact,
I'll challenge each and every one of you right now
to do that.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I'll challenge you to come ref with me.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Become USSF certified, and you can take the courses with me,
you can ref with me. You can see how fun
it's going to be. So coming up next we will
talk more about I.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Guess some football. Maybe I don't know. That's what we do.
I'm a squirrel, it's a fanatics. Some tickets seven sixty
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