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Originally Posted by Usually Lurkin
What I love about baseball is that they don't even pretend to be objective. Whatever the umpire says is correct. They could do electronic batter's boxes and slow-motion replay on every play (You are not going to slow down a game of baseball. The very laws of physics are against you on that.). But they'd rather have the human element and they're up front about it. Can you imagine if Stern said, "That wasn't a missed call. There was no foul there because no foul exists until Joey Crawford says it was a foul."
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The difference with baseball, of course, is that by and large an umpire's strike zone is his strike zone. He doesn't start the game out calling a pitch at the knees a strike and then suddenly make a drastic change in the middle innings.