Hey, Isabella, did you see that robot umps are coming next season?

For...

The balls and strikes.

So there's a system called ABS, and basically the pitcher, the catcher, or the batter at the plate have the ability to appeal a call that a human ump made. Oh, like tennis? Yeah. You can challenge it. And then they go to the, yeah. So they get two challenges per game, but if the challenge goes through, like if you were right, if they called it a ball, you tap your helmet, and then they go to the review and it was actually a strike. Actually, why don't you tap your helmet? You would rub your belly. Yeah. Then you get to keep your challenge. So every team gets two challenges. And if you go into extra innings with no challenges, they give you one. So it's like a little, they used it during the All Star game. And I think it was successful. I think every appealed strike or whatever was called. Are most baseball players okay with it? I mean, fans, I mean? Well, I don't know. Fans are always interesting to see how they feel. Because to me, I'm like, that doesn't sound, that sounds cool. I do think it's going to put a weird spotlight on any bad calls in the postseason we're

about to get into. I feel like if I were a player that like, well, I wish I could appeal this.

And in a few months, we'll be able to. So hopefully nothing comes down to like a controversial

call. But I also think important to note, Isabella, I'm curious to know if you think this.

Is this the first pillar to fall in our

war against the robots hold on like in the future when the robots are our overlords yeah will we

look back and go yeah we shouldn't have done that we let them into baseball and then they took over our national pastime and then it was curtains for us.

All right, guys, throw away your Apple Watches, throw away all electronics, let's go back to pigeons, let's go back to writing letters.

Go analog, baby.

Yeah, actually, let's not stream any games on television.

You have to...

Well, chill out.

Chill, chill, chill.

Let's chill.

Start the podcast.

It's for you.

It's for you. It's hyped up about baseball today. It's hyped up about everything we got going on. We're mostly going to talk about football, so let me shut up about baseball. But I am hyped up about baseball. That's just how it is. I, by the way, am Katie. Katie Nolan, your host for this lovely podcast, joined briefly here by my casualties. Brady's here. Hello. Chris. Hello. Isabella. Hi. And we're just going to talk about some stuff real quick before our illustriest guests. The wonderful, the incredible Mina Kimes is here in studio. A return guest. Why did you make that face? That was a good face. That was like an excited face. Oh that's crazy. Like a mean his hair? Oh it looked like a little yikes and I got really worried. I was like what's up? Did we clean the place up? Do we sweet? And we didn't. We didn't. She's our I believe correct me if I'm wrong second repeat guest. Yes. This is the second guest we've had that comes back, but in studio, unless Dan counts. We didn't, no. We still only had Dan once.

Yeah, what do you? repeat guest. Yes. This is the second guest we've had that comes back. But in studio... Unless Dan counts.

We didn't...

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