Rob Manfred Discusses Robot Umps in Major League Baseball
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00:00Rob Manfred had his all-star game, I guess, press briefing yesterday.
00:08It's impossible to find any video, but I guess he did it in a hallway with no cameras around.
00:15Rob Manfred, here's a couple of things from Rob.
00:17First, he says that robot umps may be tested at spring training.
00:21You ready for the robot umps, Scotty?
00:24The robot umps they're going to do.
00:25Listen to this.
00:26Sure.
00:27Listen to this.
00:28And B, how about this?
00:30I got a guy tells me today that his basketball league, this fancy high-end league here in
00:37the city, and Mafia and I used to play in this league, they are using a robot now to
00:44call fouls because, you heard me, they got a robot that calls fouls.
00:52And it's because there's, you know, they said they brought me up, my abusive treatment
00:58of refs.
00:59They had to bring me into it.
01:01Like they said that I was one of the worst examples of poor sportsmanship with my abuse
01:05of refs and my language and my behavior and my antics and my kung fu kicks and my star
01:12angels and my spitting, spitting on refs that stink.
01:16I like to luge on refs that stink on their feet.
01:20I go for the feet area on their shoes.
01:23And they said they were done with all of the shenanigans of dealing with players arguing
01:28with refs about every single call.
01:30So I have to see it myself to believe it.
01:33I did not know there was such a thing as a robot that now will go up and down the basketball
01:38court and call all the fouls.
01:40I actually have to believe it first.
01:43I got to see that before I can tell you it's true.
01:46But I've been told today they're using a robot to call fouls.
01:50So if they're doing it in hack men's basketball leagues, why wouldn't they do it in major
01:55league baseball?
01:56You know why?
01:57Because the refs in basketball are awful.
01:59The umps in baseball are even worse.
02:02I mean, they're so awful.
02:04They can't even call balls and strikes, let alone outs.
02:07All they do is replay now in baseball.
02:10It happens the whole game.
02:11So and the same in the NFL and college football.
02:14When's the last time you watched a football game where they don't have 45 replays?
02:18Where they go to the, you know, camera to see it?
02:20How about soccer?
02:21VAR?
02:22They can't even get that right with the cameras.