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You heard Jerry in his update talking about the ABS system, which is this automatic balls

and strikes that they're going to be using in Major League Baseball for the first time this year

in the challenge system and how there were some issues, of course, in spring training,

and umpires getting a lot of these wrong and all these challenges.

Now, what I really can't understand is you've got the technology.

Why does it have to be a challenge system?

And then on top of it, if the umpires are getting this many wrong, it's just going to be

incredibly intrusive.

And then also if you run out of these challenges, and I know that that's part of the strategy

of it, but now we're still talking about a similar situation, which is you could be laid in

a game and can be called out on strikes on what is a ball, and the system won't even be used

when you have the system, which is just stupid.

So give me the reason why you've got this system and you just don't use it for every single

pitch.

The umpire can stand there.

The umpire still has to make calls at home plate.

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