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    The Polling Place

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    Navybuttons Thoughts On Baseball

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    That's a small subset though. I'm only saying that you would do that if Ortiz had a scheduled day off and the Sox weren't even going to use him to pinch hit. I don't really know how often that happens. I've heard that managers will tell guys that they won't pinch hit because the day off is a day off mentally as much as physically and knowing you'll probably pinch hit in a big spot later would keep your mind focused the whole time (theoretically). I wonder if the manager would stick to it though if it was the bottom of the 9th, down 2, bases loaded...

    Navybuttons Thoughts On Baseball

    in Sports- Baseball

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    I do think the strike zone shouldn't be called by humans anymore. You would still have an umpire back there for hit batters, foul tips, stepping out of the batter's box, etc., so the union wouldn't complain about loss of jobs.

     

    How quickly could the strike zone box relay a signal to the umpire to say if it's a strike? Like he wears a buzzer and it buzzes for every pitch in the strike zone. The umpire would still be back there giving the strike call and the emphatic strike three calls, but the only difference is that he isn't the one making the determination.

     

    Grantland addressed this and other options today.

     

    http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9940495/ben-lindbergh-possibility-machines-replacing-umpires

     

    "Pavlidis proposes putting a buzzer in the umpire's pocket. Brooks and Port prefer a visual aid. As Port points out, an understandable instinct for self-preservation leads umpires to position themselves in the "slot" between batter and catcher, which gives them an off-center perspective on the plate and impairs their ability to see the outside corner. Port likes the idea of a PITCHf/x-informed "heads-up display … that would give the umpire a better overall look at the strike zone," compensating for the need to protect his non-robotic body. "If he centers it properly as the pitch comes in," Port continues, "in the corner of the mask there is a red or green light" that would signal strike or ball. An LED indicator would be an easy addition to make to the umpire's mask."

    ****official Miami Dolphins Thread*****

    in Sports- Football

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    Saw thislike twenty minutes after you posted that.

     

    That "you, Roger Goodell?" in the middle is perfect.

     

    The Lieutenant Weinberg shot in that speech always cracks me up. He's just sitting there like, "I have no responsibilities here whatsoever" and a Colonel calls him out.

     

     

     

    That's an incredible line right there. I'm using this and every possible variant whenever I can.

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