Shai is a fraud. The Association must be excited to see young talent take up Lebron's signature play style.

No, they notice. They want you to notice. They don't care.

Is this filling the gap they tried to close last year when they tried to sign Brock Wright from Detroit?

Would this go back as far as the IBM/Dehomag punch cards used to build a census and manage concentration camp populations in Nazi Germany?

Regional sports networks have collapsed partly because of that same reason.

I've watched baseball for 35 years. Change was necessary. Maybe they did too much but you're not growing the game when the average fan is eligible for AARP.

Sucks if the old fans can't adapt.

The average age of an MLB fan is like 62 years old. It's the oldest age of any major American sports besides I think horse racing.

There's no money in that advertising demographic. Because of that, the value of MLB broadcasting has collapsed and why ESPN no longer wants it.

Ok, so you're already out on the product.

Not much else to talk about.

Between surgical pitchers, incredible hitters, speedy runners, flawless fielders who can track a ball down and throw a runner tagging to take the next base, your line in the sand of baseball enjoyment is the umpires?

Compared to the days when umps made egregious errors, and forced the rest of us to live in their distorted reality, yes. Absolutely.

Ball/strike replay is just a stepping stone to full tech automated balls and strikes.

Don't worry, it's just old baseball fan gatekeeping their slowly dying sport from casuals as usual

Decades of inaccurate and opinionated umpiring did that for us.

That's how we got here

Did Al Michaels take over the title of degenerate gambler play by play legend from Brent Musberger?