Time for Robo-Umps?

[*ochocincos*]

Technology has made great advances in sports. It can determine balls and strikes easily, and having it on TV allows the audience to see that too. If it wasn't there, it would give more validity to the umpires making the calls the way they think.

So basically I agree with you. Technology is advanced and visible enough that umpires are not needed to call balls and strikes.

Since we're on a Bengals forum, technology could (and should) also be used to speed up and help determine what is and is not a penalty.
For example, with so many cameras nowadays, it should be easy and quick to determine whether contact to the head actually happens or not without a ref calling it and then taking multiple minutes to then make that determination from a review.