MLB Umpires: Do we really need them?

Anybody remember that scene from Naked Gun where Leslie Nelson is pretending to be an umpire during a major league game? It was absolute classic comedy. Maybe even better than his bit confusing the word “surely” with the female name “Shirley”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI7P74cAJA

But here’s the problem. Real life umpires aren’t too far off Nelson’s shtick. Many of baseball’s umps crave the eyes of fans. They wait for the perfect opportunity to get into a shouting match with a manager or player and then make that violent finger gesture, the ultimate finishing move in the world of baseball.

“Yuuuuuuuuuurrr out of hereeeeeeeee!”

That’s hilarious in movies but when I’m watching a game - and especially when I'm betting it - I don’t want the officials to take over the show. And when you really think about it, baseball doesn’t need human judges.

Why pay four overweight, attention person to make a bunch of incorrect calls on the diamond when you could just use the K-Zone technology? There just aren’t that many subjective rules in the baseball that makes it necessary to have those blowhards out there on the field.

Think about it. Never worrying about whether an ump’s strike zone was big or small. It’d just be the right call every time. Fair or foul? No problem. Baseball could use the Hawk-Eye technology they use in tennis.

It may sound extreme but if we don’t do something soon the big leagues are going to look more and more bush league.

i think the same thing sometime....the last call i hated was when arod pretended to tag out jose reyes on a play to third, and reyes was called out and a rod completely missed...however the trump card to this argument is tradition...ud be changing a game thats been played the same way for over 100 years