> All of the players and officials are color blind, but the TV
> audience is not. In the game 99% of the balls are blue or red, but 1% are
> green, so occasionally a team is "incorrectly" given points for scoring a
> green ball. In such a scenario, would it really make sense to change the
> scoring based on how a non-color blind viewer in New York saw it on an
> instant replay?
In the spirit of the question, once the participants realize that some of
the balls are green ("That's why there's a section about green balls in the
rule book,") they can change the green balls to blue (or red, if they
prefer), adopt a rule that treats green balls like blue for the purpose of
scoring (which seems to be the status quo), and/or change the color or
striping of the green balls so participants can distinguish them. What the
league doesn't want is a championship that's decided when a green ball is
incorrectly considered the winning score, everybody but the participants
knows it immediately, and fans of the losing team go on forever about how
they were cheated, or start watching bowling instead.
Generally, we agree on more than we disagree about. My point is that as
technology marches on, and as it's available to everyone else, it should be
available to officials, too. You're right about how nobody wants to wait 45
seconds for a pitch to be called electronically, but if it can be done in a
second, and it's more accurate than home plate umpires, there's an obvious
place for the technology. If it's capable of making real distinctions that
human officials can't, that's a feature, not a bug.
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