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Quoted from NY Times...

TECHNOLOGY — AND UMPIRES — ARE IMPERFECT Fox and TBS use SportVision to create their strike-zone graphics. The company’s chief executive, Hank Adams, says the technical toy can track pitches to within a half-inch of reality. Buck and Caray have called it an approximation of reality. Yes, there is value to seeing how a pitcher works a hitter. But if the tool is not perfect and each umpire has different versions of the strike zone, we are left with confusion. Example: on Wednesday night, on a 3-1 count to the Phillies’ Chase Utley, TBS’s PitchTrax showed three pitches in the strike zone. Who was wrong — and on which pitch? Advice: use it even more judiciously than Fox does, and not nearly as often as TBS does, only in HD.

I used to play whiffleball when I was a kid. My friends and I found a rectangular, plastic container that fit what the size we wanted our strike zone to be. We set it on a couple of bricks behind home plate and ruled that if we hear the ball hit it, it's a strike, as long as it wasn't on a bounce. Never had an argument because sounds don't lie. Neither does PitchTrax. It has the capability to be the plastic strike zone container for MLB. In all fairness, what is your opinion and what is most important to you? Getting calls right or tradition?