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    "Major League Baseball can now call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy… but will only use the system in the most annoying way possible",
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  "textContent": "The 2026 Major League Baseball season will be the first in which a computer will be used to determine balls and strikes. The strike zone has been redefined for this Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) system, to eliminate subjectivity.\n\nHowever, instead of simply using this technology, which allows MLB to set the strike zone with millimeter-level precision and enforce it with absolute consistency, to call _all_ balls and strikes, it has decided to use it only sparingly, and in the most annoying way possible — with a challenge system. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Major League Baseball can now call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy… but will only use the system in the most annoying way possible appeared first on Boing Boing.",
  "title": "Major League Baseball can now call balls and strikes with 100% accuracy… but will only use the system in the most annoying way possible"
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