It seems to most people that technology reduces the emotions that sport gives. Instead it would avoid many useless discussions and blunders. It is for this reason that baseball too must begin to make massive use of AI and robot referees.

We all know that a person cannot be as precise as the technology that today we are able to deploy (in every sense).

Baseball fans know the rage of calls not going as they would like. Such as a ball that should have been a strike.

Here, with advances including computer vision and artificial intelligence it would be very easy for baseball officials to replace humans with robotic referees.

And I don’t understand why he still hesitates by losing the opportunity to have false and unjust matches. Perhaps because the public and so many fans are holding back this progress irrationally. Because they have prejudices.

So if you are also by any chance against this improvement I want you to know these two or three things that could make you change your mind.

For example…

IN EUROPEAN FOOTBALL WITH TECHNOLOGY WE COULD SAY GOODBYE TO FAKE GOALS

Do you remember the goal of the legendary Diego Armando Maradona scored by hand?

It happened in the 1986 World Cup against England.

If by chance you have never seen it, you are not justified by saying that “you don’t love football”. Because this episode has now become a World Heritage Site.

So much so that a term has been coined: “Mano de Dios”

It indicates that hand with which Maradona scored and the referee considered it valid because he thought he had scored it with his head. Heading is possible, hand in football is not allowed (only goalkeepers).

Here, today that goal would no longer be possible. No smart player would get away with it….

There are two technologies recently introduced in football:

– The Goal Line Technology

– The Video Assistant Referee (VAR)

The first is a laser system that indicates on the referees’ clock when the ball crosses the goal line and therefore a goal has been scored.

The first time it was used in the Serie A championship in Italy and then in all other European nations. He avoided arguments and false goals.

For example in those cases where the ball was parried by the goalkeeper precisely on the line and no one knew precisely if the ball was over the line or not and therefore on the net or not.

“Thanks to Goal Line Technology with pinpoint accuracy, you always know the exact outcome: that is, whether it is a goal or a save. And there is no more margin for error.”

The VAR was the second novelty to arrive on the football fields. Basically there is a team of other referees who check in real time the replays of the most suspicious actions.

And if the referee on the pitch asks for their help they can give a more certain look and decision thanks to the possibility of reviewing the images in slow motion.

In some cases the referee on the field can watch the replay of the dubious episode himself through a monitor that is on the sideline.

This other technology greatly reduced the errors that occurred.

And they are only the beginning of an improvement thanks to the technology of how the games are played. Avoiding a lot of unnecessary arguments at the end of sports competitions.

Therefore, even in baseball, any help given by the progress of artificial intelligence and other innovations should be used immediately.