Cherish This World Series. It's the Last One in Human Hands
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The NYT opinion piece laments that the current World Series may be the last one with human umpires, sparking discussion on the impact of technology on sports.
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MLB approves robot umpires for 2026 as part of challenge system
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354304
"the challenge system that will be introduced next year, which gives each team two chances per nine innings to ask for an automated second guess"
Someday, fully-automated balls-and-strikes calls may come to Baseball. But the change for next season is nothing more than the home plate equivalent of American football's challenge flag.