You Just Can’t Get As Mad at Technology As You Can at a Human

Beating a robot to death with a bat just isn’t much fun.

Will Leitch
4 min readApr 25, 2022

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Someone once asked the late, great baseball umpire Ron Luciano whether he thought if, someday, there would be robot umpires automatically calling balls and strikes, He admitted there probably would be, but that it wouldn’t solve the fundamental conflict at the heart…

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Will Leitch

I write about these tumultuous times 2x a week. Author of five books, including “How Lucky.” NYMag/MLB.. Founder, Deadspin. https://williamfleitch.substack.com