Catch!
Roboticists at the University of Tokyo have created a robotic baseball catcher:
That's great. But what we really need is a replacement for the idiots who stand behind the catcher.
The robotic catcher, developed by scientists at the University of Tokyo, Japan, can comfortably grab a ball careering through the air at 300 kilometres per hour [188 mph]...
That's great. But what we really need is a replacement for the idiots who stand behind the catcher.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 08:39
2 Comments:
Yes, but it throws like a girl.
Now come on Jarhead, you know that the idiot behind the plate is part of the game, and has been since the inception of baseball. I do agree that sometimes (well OK a lot of times) the idiots behind the plate will miss a call. But this appears to be nothing new, according to the hostory of umpires:
During the National Association (1871-1875) and early years of the National League umpires were hard to find as illustrated by this Al Spalding quote, "To secure the presence of intelligent, honest, unprejudiced, quick witted, courageous umpires at all contests in scheduled games has been one of the most vexatious problems confronting those in control of our national sport."
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