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The same idiotic attitude that I run into in game threads at MC...the "that's part of the game and if you computerize the zone, you might as well have the game played by robots or on a stratomatic board" BS...that's not something that's come by randomly.  That same attitude is shared by long time baseball men.  They imagine that technology is the enemy of the golden age of baseball...a computerized strike zone is the moral equivalent of steroids, instant replay (another thing they hate although on HR calls maybe they can live with it...LOL) and the proliferation of blogs (non-progressive baseball men like Bill Bavasi hate you, Doc...isn't that awesome!...seriously...they think that baseball analysis that occurs in the blogosphere is evil).
The basic problem is...for the entrenched and the old at heart, baseball was a club.  No girls allowed, and you gain admission through hazing and spouting cliches to the right friends in high places.  It was exclusive, intoxicating, and it made them feel important.  Now a thousand bloggers analyze the game with just as much precision as they could with the same input data, several dozen of them landed jobs in progressive front offices through *gasp* MERIT!!! not connections!!!...and they can feel their iron grip on their traditional exclusive superiority over baseball slipping away.  Hence the confrontational anti-progressive bias on anything that is not like how the game was played in 1950.