Never!
How about changing the rules where a team can only use two pitchers in a game.
BTW, Tech has made calling balls and strikes a completely automated and more precise process. Umps need to go. They are not needed for that. Throw a couple more cameras on the sidelines, and they aren’t needed for ANYTHING.
If you get rid of umpires, who is the manager going to yell at?
No rule changes. The game will eventually adjust.
True. I seem to see more balls called as strikes than the other way around. Umpires calling strikes barely on the corners. I say have the umpire calling them from the booth watching the image until you have a robot doing it. IOWs the umpires are making it harder for hitters.
“How about changing the rules where a team can only use two pitchers in a game.”
MAYBE just a rule that says a pitcher must record 3 outs, or face 9 batters to be relieved.
Never!
That's actually not a bad idea. Just a starter and a reliever (if necessary). Not sure how they'd enforce that rule as teams would find a way around it by having a pitcher fake an injury. Maybe they could force that pitcher to go on the 15-day disabled list to discourage that practice.
The constant pitching changes are just not good for the game and head coaches that bring in pitchers to face just one batter ought to be shot! Not only does it slow the game down but makes it unbearable to watch in the later innings.
I have always hated umpires.
When you said they aren’t needed (except to make mistsakes and rsuin the fans’ enjoyment of the game—my idea) it reminded me of the old railroads.
The railroad worker unions were so strong in the 1940s and 1950s that when modern locomotives did not need a “fireman” at all, they had to keep them in order to placate the unions!
In 1985 a president named Ronald Reagan got them to accept “the fireman’s job to no longer be warranted or necessary for the safe operation of trains .” Millions of dollars had to be paid without purpose and decades of “most contentious labor dispute” had to be wasted in fighting.
26 years earlier the move to diesel power had changed the trains and at first they thought a fireman was needed.
Umpires call balls and strikes based on bias, prejudice, hatred, old grudges, and scores to settle against plays in earlier games. Foxtrax et al show the truth and fans know the balls are not where the umpires just said. Announcers make phony BS chatter but know it is a fraud.