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@tadashiroll @S_U_Network When you talk about players carrying a team, Steph does a great job of carrying a team to the play-in game.

@S_U_Network True. Duncan is top 10 all time. Not sure where to rank Curry yet.

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@TurndogsPod 100%! After a great shot in the middle of the fairway, the first golfer gets to approach off immaculate grass. The second golfer hits the same shot, but now has to hit out of a tiny sand-filled bunker. How is that fair?

Not being able to remove a ball from a divot is the dumbest rule in golf #TheMasters

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@LanceMcAlister Up until 2026, the strike zone was a cube. Now it's a square 8" from the front of the plate. Umpires are "missing " calls that have been strikes forever for the sake "getting it right". Make ABS a cube and you'll see umpires are better than ABS shows.

I've changed my mind. I've always been in favor of MLB's new Automated Ball-Strike system. I'm for getting calls right. I've really enjoyed the strategy that has evolved with the system. But I've changed my mind on ABS. I think we've the plot. My initial thought on ABS was that it would correct the obvious and egregious calls. Call it the 'Angel Hernandez governor.' What I did not anticipate was the number of razor thin decisions that would be challenged. But the tool has made it too much about the umpires. We are now celebrating/mocking when an umpire is being challenged and shown to be wrong multiple times in a game. This isn't me being an apologist for guys like CB Bucknor. Rather it's about the fact we have the technology to decide the status of a pitch that is moving at 100+ mph with a dramatic break sideways, or down. A pitch that may ultimately be 0.01 of an inch in/out of the strike zone. So, I've changed my mind. Use ABS all the time. On every pitch. This should be about getting all the pitches correct. Not about exposing umpires. I get it, I get the anticipation and rush of a challenge. The process is quick, sleek, and comes with a visual element on the scoreboard. It's fun. I cheered with GABP crowd when Bucknor had his bad day earlier in the season. But as currently implemented, ABS has created a subsystem: Criticism of umpires for missing a pitch. The system should be about getting all the calls correct. Leading up to this season, I'd pointed to the 2025 umpire accuracy rate of nearly 94%, an all-time high. I didn't think that called for ABS to make all the calls. I saw the system as a correction tool for a very small number of pitches. Now, I believe we should use ABS on every pitch. Get every pitch right. We have the technology. Don't pick and choose when to use it. The umpires have an earpiece. With this change, they'd simply instantly relay the decision on every pitch. They'd still certainly serve a purpose behind the plate. They have check swings, hit by pitch, plays at the plate, etc. Heck, Matt McLain struck out looking to end last night's game on an obvious ball. He didn't challenge it, because he couldn't challenge it. The Reds were out of challenges. The more I think about all of this, the sillier that aspect seems. Again, I love ABS. I want to keep using ABS. I just want to tweak ABS. Thoughts?

@AdamBattocchi @VinnysCorner1 Idiotic. So Pop never won without Duncan. How many did Jackson win without a superstar or stars? Or Spo for that matter? Kerr has a superstar but has always needed multiple to win (struggled to make playoffs with just Steph).

@VinnysCorner1 False. Popovich isn't even in the top 5. Never won back to back titles. Never got to the Finals without Tim Duncan. Never won a finals without home court advantage and Imploded after Kawhi Leonard. Steve Kerr is better than Pop. So is Red Auerbach, Chuck Daly too.

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@RetroNewsNow It's amazing that this guy would finally make a name for himself in auto racing.

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@charliespeefeet @jonbecker_ Thank you

@jonbecker_ Will you please listen to what people are actually saying? Overwhelmingly, the issue is people do not think that ABS should be **overturning** calls like this, because 95% of ABS readings are off by up to 0.39". You cannot use this as proof that an ump was off by millimeters.

The fallacy of people saying "no" to this is that they think (as I used to!) that setting a different cutoff like "25% of the ball in the strike zone" or something would be better, when *within* that cutoff you're still going to have incredibly close calls

@Da1lyBullsh1t @CodifyBaseball Since the ABS zone is 8 inches back, one would assume it was a strike for at least the first 7 1/2 inches over the plate.

@CodifyBaseball So it was definitely a strike at the front of the plate. Gotta say it’s a good call by the ump despite the overturn

the ABS system said this pitch missed the strike zone by less than one thousandth of a millimeter

@parker_lee_ @BadSportsRefs Except we still have no idea what a catch is.

You make the call: should pitches that are 99.9%+ out of the zone like this be a strike?