 What's up fellas. I was just watching the podcast Rockies game last night and the umping was just horrendous. The strike zone was all over the place. I saw a few players get just totally screwed by calls that were called strikes when they shouldn't have been or were clearly over the plate and called balls. And then of course the commentators start talking about just taking the ump completely out of the game. Just wanted to get you guys the thoughts on why you think the umping is especially bad this season and if you think it's going to carry over into the postseason. Thanks for taking my call. Jake sucks. I mean has the ump as the umping been necessarily worth this call any season. I think every season you say wow the umping has gotten really bad this year. There's bad umps out there. There's good umps out there. I don't know. Base running's been bad. You like Robo umps Trev? We were a pro ump pod. At least we have been lately. I go back and forth and every time I start talking about the game of baseball all I can think of is don't be a boomer. Don't be a boomer. Don't be a boomer. Again I'm kind of a boomer on this. I like the human element. I like it. I like the interaction. The one thing I will say is it would be cool as like a hitter or a team to have some sort of like pitch challenge flag. If you get rung up on a horseshit strike three call and you could be like not sorry you know CB here's my red flag. We're gonna challenge that one. I think that'd be cool. Do you know when you're striking out in a big time situation and it's a shit call you pissed man. It gets real tricky there. If they can do balls and strikes via robots eventually or they can perfect it. It's not it's not perfect what they tried. I would not be against it. I think the umpings been the same as it always is. Like you know when it's bad you notice it when it's not bad. It's like soundtracks and scores and movies. You know do you think they could implement an appeal like where we get together and we say hey you get to appeal two balls and strikes a game. It's just with the eye test. It's with the overhead cam. And what do you think that could kind of work. No. Okay. I think it could. I think if you limit call like if it's a high or low call like that depends on how the batter like the rule is like when the batter is ready to swing. So it's not him standing still. It's like there's so many trinkets to like actually figure out. They already have that technology though. You can go and look if the guys missed a pitch or not. It's and it's and it's instant. So like if you I think having unlimited challenges doesn't work but if you did have one or two and like you're like dude big big part of the game I could get that pitch back. If you have that just use it for every pitch. I see no reason to half-ass that. Well that's and I think that would slow the game down way too much if you had it every pitch. No I'm saying if you have the ability he's he went if you have if you're going to actually use the technology to check the pitches that would just use it. And if it was a robot use it but I do think there's a world where you could use it now and I don't want to compare it to the NFL pass interference rule because they basically implemented it and then said we're we're going to shove it up your guys but like it's it's not a real thing. But I do think you're right. I think what teams would need to know what you can actually peel it would have to be really low to the point that you could look at it and be like yeah that's a low pitch. But with the plate in that overhead camera I think you can do if there's a gap there. So I think if teams knew that appeal system because it it just is a really at Trev I agree with you and I love the human nature but man when that one one pitch is off the plate and gets called a strike and instead of two one you're one two. I mean with the with the way modern way baseball is played. I mean that's that can be the difference in a game so easily because then one two count you're getting basically three sliders. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's a big difference. You have the technology and you use it every pitch or you don't you know. But I have an interesting question. Michael K. on the Yes Network there was a play where someone slid into third they came off the base slightly and in between like their foot hitting it and then their butt landing on it the glove stayed on. So they reversed the call and called him out which I think everyone agrees not in the spirit of replay but an unaffected consequence of using replay. Michael K said when they review it they should not be able to use slow mo replays just live time. That'll fix all the bang bangs that get wrong. Like all the really egregious missed calls but then you wouldn't have the unaffected consequences. I don't know if I like it or dislike it but I definitely thought it was an interesting thought process that I hadn't thought of. I don't like it. I mean I don't like the whole keep your tag on the guy inches off the base after he slides through it. He's out thing because that puts if you if you try to stop on the base as like a base runner you're going to get hurt dude. Like that should happens where you kind of go past the base. I think that's like you said that's an what did you call it unattended consequence unattended consequence tough word intended intended unintended unintentional unintentional. I don't like that part of it but if you're I mean I go back and forth on this all the time. I love the spirit of the game what the call is right. But mainly I think if I was in charge of this it just be big situations and I don't know how you trim that down like two strikes something like that. I don't know man. It's it's hard. That's why there hasn't been why there isn't one replays weird. I hate that. I hate that the call on the field holds weight. Right. Oh it has to be really bad. It has to be really like what's the word has to be to overturn to overturn it. Like really. There's a word they always use I'm blanking stanchal evidence really substantial to overturn it. Why. Right. We're calling his call into question. So why would it hold any weight into the decision when that's the very thing we're an element like there was the home run with the Cubs Joe West Joe West in not the Cubs Astros with Mookie and Joe West called it a home run. But then Joe West said you know what I want to review this right because I don't believe my own call. I don't have faith in my own call. And then it got upheld because there wasn't enough evidence to overturn the call that Joe West himself said I don't have any faith in this. Can we get help me out here. Like why would that hold any weight. That makes sense to me that the umpire's call holds weight. You know it's like saying like I didn't kill him and like well let's let's go to the evidence like OK well you know we have to believe him because he said he didn't do it. It's like well why would that hold weight when that's the very thing in question. I've never understood that. It's weird. I don't know man. I don't think again I don't think there's a perfect solution to that because then what do you say. Just make a new call. Just make a new call and say from the video we watched this is the call. But if it's close enough then I think like fan bases would just get outraged. They do already. At least you have a rule you know. Well they do already. Like if we can't tell. But how many times do we get upset by that rule. Oh yeah I mean it sucks but I just don't think there's a better answer. Whenever they say the call on the field stands people are pissed. If they say confirmed or overturned great. But when it stands you're just like that pisses you off so much. Yeah.