“’Cause it’s gonna be the future soon,
And I won’t always be this way,
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.”
--- Jonathan Coulton, “The Future Soon”
The Invisible Box
Every baseball season, calls get louder for Major League Baseball to implement an electronic strike zone.
We see it on our TV screens: that little box showing exactly where the imaginary strike zone is supposed to be. We see pitch locations pop up instantly on our phones with MLB’s own AtBat app.