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Digital Baseball Umpires
Dekaner writes "Wired is running an article on an electronic umpire that tracks each baseball pitch and judges whether it is within the "strike zone" has been installed at 10 major league ballparks in the U.S. The QuesTec system uses several cameras that track each pitch and compare the machine's judgment with that of the umpire standing behind the catcher. At the end of each game it provides a summary of its ratings and compares them with the umpire's calls. In general there is reasonably good agreement. In a recent test the QuesTec system judged that 32.1 percent of pitches were within the "strike zone", while the umpire called 31.4 percent as strikes. However, the umpires association has filed a complaint about the system's unreliability and incapability to replace the human 3-D, real-time view. "
How do you kick dirt on a digital umpire?
It's "Buggy Whip" time.
Can the strike zone be "augmented" by passing the system hundred-dollar bills...
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
Computer UMP: Yes that's what I said a strike.
Computer UMP: Yes that's what I said a strike.
away in the stands: Hot dogs! Get yer hot dogs!
Ah the boys of summer. Wonder if they'll put a plastron on the sucker?
Steeeeeeeeerike.
QD
Replace the batter and the pitcher with robots, and I still won't give a damn about baseball. :)
This would be a great place of employment for all those robot soccer players that will be out of work in America due to yet another instance of the American appetite for soccer coming in well below expectations.
"Bender like Beckham" indeed.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
However, the umpires association has filed a complaint about the system's unreliability and incapability to replace the human 3-D, real-time view.
... instead only giving an accurate 3-D, real-time view.
"Dave.... Dave.... 3 strikes and you're out, Dave".
I said the same things in defense of pornstarlets once, but I don't think anyone took me seriously.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Some pitchers are really mad about it. Curt Schilling was fined earlier in the season for destroying a QuesTec camera in Bank One Ballpark, his home park in Arizona.
This, of course, is the same Curt Schilling who gave up two homers to a fellow player he abandoned in "Everquest," allowing said player's character to die.
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I like your logic - thumbs up!
$100K pretax dollars is more than I make in pretax dollars.
Anyone that makes more than me obviously does not deserve it.
Therefore, they should be replaced with robots.
QED
By far the best proof I've ever seen.
*golf clap*
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Anyone else feel a little weird discussing baseball on slashdot?
I know I do.
http://use.perl.org
I mean.. how interesting will it be to watch a manager bump chests with this thing? And will this be programmed to throw 'em outta da game?
:)
I welcome our new 99% overlords.
just get robots to throw the ball and hit it as well.