1) They say that if you remove the human element from the officiating, the game will have lost something unique about its own culture...that being the ability of the players to impact the officiating by their own trickery and skill and the fun of the managers and players expressing frustration when calls don't go their way. You will make the game more boring if every call is obvious and always correct.
2) They say that if you computerize the strikezone, the result of the game will be (either too hitter friendly or too pitcher friendly depending on who you talk to) wrong. That Greg Maddux would have had 4.00 ERAs and that the game would be 6 R/G/Side instead of 4.5...or that it would become much easier to throw breaking pitches for strikes and that the scoring would plummet. But either way...they are saying they don't want to see the game change.
3) They say that is you computerize the zone, you will harm how the game is presented (yes...they say this...it is patently absurd...if anything knowing the instant a pitch arrives whether it is a strike will IMPROVE our experience watching it...but they make this claim), saying that the doubt on each pitch is part of the game's charm
4) They say that the technology is expensive to apply and that the rules need to be as similar as possible at all levels...so we can't do it until the minor league teams and the college teams and the high school teams and the little league teams all do it. Yes, really.
That's what they say.
I say all of those claims are ludicrous and wrong. But you know that already. I ***HATE*** injustice...and I hate that my team is ALWAYS the one getting hosed by an unfair, incompetent system...and I want the game to be about human skill, not about the umpire. And I have actually studied umpire biases in depth and found them to be slightly LARGER than park factors (!)...tonight's ump is a great example...this man, like Hirschbeck is CONSTANTLY in the center of fights with players because they all know his zone is not accurate. Hirschbeck got a Roberto Alomar spitwad in the eye for that (not that I'm saying that was cool to do)...and Danley is just as maddening...his umpire factor is about the same as COORS FIELD. NO...that is NOT acceptable.