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Originally Posted by SCalScoreKeeper
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As a basketball official timer, I suspect you see a good deal of "Bang-Bang" charge/foul situations, that ultimately boil down to what (exactly) the official making the call
believed he saw. From where you were sitting (or where a camera was filming) the view may have been different, or the perception of those looking at that view may have been different. It's much the same with a football complete/incomplete decision, added by the facts the distances and speed, between views, are often markedly different.
The same applies to the safe/out calls that spark so much endless in controversy baseball. If not already, most certainly soon, technology will enable us to differentiate
exactly the micro distance between a blade of grass, and the sole of a shoe, whether a fingertip contacts the pebble of a basketball, or the hair on a hand, but
TO WHAT END?
We can put sensors in balls, in lines, in uniforms probably even under skin to take all of the uncertainty out of these questions, but what would that do to the enjoyment of the games we all seem so eager to watch?