Mastodawn

Ruben Bolling 🪲Mar 23

Now on Boing Boing: my rant about MLB’s inane new ball-strike challenge system.

“a worst-of-both-worlds compromise between accuracy and tradition”

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/23/major-league-baseball-can-now-call-balls-and-strikes-with-100-accuracy-but-will-only-use-the-system-in-the-most-annoying-way-possible.html

Major League Baseball can now call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy... but will only use the system in the most annoying way possible

MLB's new ABS system can call every pitch perfectly. Instead, they made a challenge system that slows the game down.

Boing Boing

It's going to be maddening. I thought that the rectangle was staying, along with the ball location, but without the ball/strike indication. Is the rectangle really going away completely? WTAF??