Video: Our Umpiring Problems Are Solved
I don’t know. All I know is that I’m sick of the human element, the blown calls, and helmets taking bad hops and hitting umpires. There has to be another way. It’s probably not D’ump, a combination of a deer and an umpire, but I like that there are people out there — sick people, clearly — who are thinking outside the box.
H/T: Nobel Prize-winning NotGraphs reader Matt, who writes at yanksgoyard.com. You can follow him on Twitter, too: @MHunterYGY.
Navin Vaswani is NotGraphs' Toronto -- and therefore Canada -- correspondent. A loyal Blue Jays supporter, he's heard nothing but good things about the playoffs. Follow him on Twitter.
Wtf.
That’s what Brett Lawrie said.
Doe West approves
Buck Martinez has also given his stamp of approval.
I assume you mean Joe West. I strongly disagree. I think he would toss this.
Oh Deer!
Baseball is forever indebted to Tim & Eric… and to a lesser extent, Bob Odenkirk…
I for one welcome our new robot Overlords.
I’ll raise my glass/bottle/good beer containing receptacle to this.
To science, we toast!
It’s about time science started contributing.
That was D’umb
bad hop? even batting helmets are known to occasionally follow the laws of physics
Bad hop.
Fangraphs and Tim and Eric come together….this is a great day.
There’s no way the union charter allows for this.