A suggestion on how to fix umpiring in baseball
I'll start by saying I hate the idea of instant replay in baseball. I think it's going to do nothing but slow the game down and make for ridiculous situations where what to do is just impossible to figure out... Well, we called the ball foul, but it was fair. Would that have been a double or a single? Would the runner from first have tried to
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First comes the replays... Then, hell, why even use umpires at all? Silly humans and their fallibilities! Just rig up computers and cameras and program them with the requirements of the game, field dimensions, rules, whatever. Have the players wear those suits with all of the sensors on them to help calculate the strike zone and whatnot. It's a finite area anyway, over the plate between the shoulders and the knees, should be easy to do with a laser grid.
If they can plug a chip into a hockey puck so I can keep track of it on a television broadcast (or that line they superimpose on tv for football that helps you visualise how far they need to go for their next down), why not plant one in a baseball to see if it breaks into the strike zone? Or, to your example, sensors in/on a bat to see if the batter actually checked the swing or came around.
Working stiffs get replaced by automation everyday, let's start on the pro athletes!
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