Postgame Processing Changes Gibson's Strike EJ QOC

[Lindsay]

Dodgers Manager Dave Roberts became the sixth person ejected in 2019 arguing an umpire's ball/strike call that looked incorrect in real-time, but was later changed to 'correct' when MLB's postgame pitch processing changed computer zone numbers to flip Greg Gibson's QOC from N to Y. When Gibson...

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[Umpire in Chief]

Lets play what if. 

So what happens if the Atlantic League's TrackMan expands. Lets use this case as an example. So the computer initially calls a pitch a ball as it would have in this instance. You really wouldn't be able to reverse a call after it's made because you have too many what if's. This is a perfect example of why umpires continue to be better than computers. 

[dumbdumb]

1 hour ago, Umpire in Chief said:

Lets play what if. 

So what happens if the Atlantic League's TrackMan expands. Lets use this case as an example. So the computer initially calls a pitch a ball as it would have in this instance. You really wouldn't be able to reverse a call after it's made because you have too many what if's. This is a perfect example of why umpires continue to be better than computers. 

I will not contest the last sentence. However they do not care IMHO. The call, even though incorrect, would be consistent every time, even though wrong in their thinking. So everyone would suffer equally, but there would be less miss of a strike one pitch in that exact spot, but a ball in that exact spot later, in their humble opinion. It is moving rapidly with the AZL hooked up and starting their 2nd week of play.

Back when computers (even the word itself) first came out, nobody thought they would ever play any part in our daily lives, they were just a toy that looked cute like a slinky.

They could never replace a human for "anything". They were only as good as the human programming/working with them, so they could never take over any, and I mean any,  human type work that is done everyday, in any way shape or form, because they did not have the human brain, that had got the world to this point to start with.

I will let you decide if that thinking has stood the test of time.

[kylehutson]

1 hour ago, dumbdumb said:

Back when computers (even the word itself) first came out, nobody thought they would ever play any part in our daily lives, they were just a toy that cost a half-million dollars and took more floor space than an average house of the day

FTFY.

cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC