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WATCH: A Baseball Prospect Gets Ejected for Arguing with a Robot Umpire

Earlier this year, Major League Baseball started experimenting with ROBOT UMPIRES in the Minors.  And Giants prospect Jacob Heyward apparently just became the first player to be thrown out of a game for arguing the robot’s call.

Sadly, there’s no actual robot . . . it’s just a series of cameras hooked up to a computer, which sends the call to an actual human umpire.

(So he’s kind of like that sad-looking lady whose job is to stand next to the self-checkout lanes at the supermarket, hoping one of the red lights will go on so she has something to do.)

Heyward took a called strike three and threw a tantrum, so the HUMAN umpire tossed him.  And thus Skynet begins its war on humanity, and is even using some of our own against us!

(WARNING: There’s UNCENSORED profanity in the video, so don’t play it in the office.  Swipe right to see a visualization of where the ball was in the strike zone.  The pitch was right on the edge, but it was a strike.)

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