00:00I got to ask you about the ABS. We're now in the back half of the season here.
00:05Has it been great for Major League Baseball, in your opinion, guy, you know, as a pitcher?
00:09Do you like it in what it's brought to the game?
00:13I'm going to be honest. I love it. And there's a lot of times when you see something that's changed,
00:19whether it's a rule, you can talk about the kickoff in football, right?
00:21How they've completely changed the kickoff. There's a lot of times when things are changed that I don't know if
00:27we like it because it's not what we're used to.
00:29There's pushback. But as far as the ABS goes, they're quick, right? It's instant.
00:33We're not sitting over there watching a record or we're not watching a replay over and over again.
00:37It's instant. And I think it gives a little bit of power back to the players. I like it. I
00:43love it.
00:44I like seeing the dynamic between whether a pitcher calls it or the catcher calls it.
00:47If you're back there, I think it's been good for baseball. I don't see any problem with it.
00:52But the only thing I miss is Earl Weaver going after umpires and that kind of stuff and barking the
00:58way that they used to bark there.
01:00Do you think it how do you think the umpires have received it?
01:05You know, I was actually just kind of thinking about that in the back of my mind as I was
01:09saying it.
01:09I think that they should receive it like this. Be glad that we didn't go full electronic.
01:14OK, we're keeping umpires a part of the game.
01:16You're still a part of baseball because there are some people out there that are going to say, hey, we
01:20know whether it's a strike or a ball.
01:22Why are we letting human error come into it? Right.
01:24Why are we putting the even the potential of human error into something when we can completely remove it?
01:30Well, this is a middle ground that we found for you. So be glad that you're still getting to umpire.
