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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