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Wednesday, June 20, 2012
“In the first place, one cannot imagine a catcher, batter, or pitcher flying into a rage and blessing out an electronic umpire. If he is electronic, his blood pressure would not rise and there would be no basis to expect that he could change his mind. His decision would have been made on upon electronic principles and those principles do not change.”
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1. ecwcat Posted: June 20, 2012 at 11:19 AM (#4161935)I mean, c'mon, if we can bring Tupac back from the dead, we can handle a few boxes and circles.
No, but I look forward to Robot Earl Weaver doing just that.
Sports history, such as it is, suggests the opposite.
Tennis umpires can still over-rule the machines.
When computer rankings were introduced to college football, the immediate assumption once they disagreed with the human rankings was that the computers were wrong and greater weight was given to the polls.
The partial counter to this is replay which people have great faith in ... but the final decision is still made by a human, uses the on-field call as default and is frequently controversial.
Humans don't like machines making decisions (although they are doing so all the time). And as soon as the Wrigley Field robo-ump rings up Dayan Viciedo, Hawk will erupt in furor and scream about how everybody knows the Cubs have rigged the robo-ump to have a bigger zone when they're pitching.
The more the merrier! I'll be keeping my eye out.
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