Samantha Power: belief

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…As much as you want. That’s the question. So the idea would be the catcher’s glove would be like the tennis . . . I suppose. If on TV we can see what a strike is, maybe there’s no downside to that. I think to get the angles right at second base, not that they make great calls at first an overwhelming percentage of the time. Maybe you could even find a way, technically, to get the tie-goes-to-the-runner question at first. But I think applying tags — we’re going to have to retain the human element there. And maybe there’s weirdly an appeal from a robot to a person in some of these subjective circumstances, but on a home run ball, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to ascertain on the question of whether a home run has gone over the line or is below the line. I don’t know how you would do the foul ball. You could probably have some magnetic field along the yellow foul pole where the people sitting in the stands have electromagnetic rays going into themselves. That would be very, very healthy for the game. No. I don’t know. I think it could get really carried away, but it is useful to have instant replay where at least there’s a court of appeal. And I think on balls and strikes . . . I hadn’t really thought of it much before. I’ve been a little preoccupied with the destruction of our democracy and other things. [laughter] Less important things.…

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