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It is past time for MLB to address its umpiring problem

Well, well, well. It looks like Major League Baseball’s umpires are back on their [redacted] once again! This past weekend has seen MLB’s umpires provide multiple embarrassing displays on the field, and I’m not even talking about the regular misses on balls-and-strikes. Missing on strike zone calls are understandable since it would be insane to expect one-hundred percent perfection from umpires. The human element is real and unless the minor league experiment with robot umpires actually takes off, it’s here to stay.

If we’re going to keep human umpires around, then they absolutely have to do better, because it’s becoming a joke at this point.