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| ====== The "Out" Incident ====== | ====== The "Out" Incident ====== |
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| //as told by Elizabeth Bennet-sensei, teacher at PS. 39 in Brooklyn, NY.// | ==== as told by Elizabeth Bennet-sensei, teacher at PS. 39 in Brooklyn, NY. ==== |
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| "One day when I came in, this was back in 2383, my class of ten-year-olds was debating a play in a baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and the New York Yankees. The auto-ump had called the Brooklyn runner out on second, when replays clearly showed that the player, I forget his name, was safe. Much of the class—Yankees fans, I suppose—were complaining that the auto-ump called the play and that was that, end of argument. A fair few of the rest were saying that if the auto-ump couldn't call a play correctly we should all just go right back to human umpires, as some leagues still used. I let them argue because I didn't have enough coffee to really face them all that morning. The argument devolved into whether one should rely on machines to make "important" decisions, or whether a human (I corrected them here, whether a //living)// being should oversee these decisions, something most pro leagues had phased out long ago. | "One day when I came in, this was back in 2383, my class of ten-year-olds was debating a play in a baseball game between the Brooklyn Cyclones and the New York Yankees. The auto-ump had called the Brooklyn runner out on second, when replays clearly showed that the player, I forget his name, was safe. Much of the class—Yankees fans, I suppose—were complaining that the auto-ump called the play and that was that, end of argument. A fair few of the rest were saying that if the auto-ump couldn't call a play correctly we should all just go right back to human umpires, as some leagues still used. I let them argue because I didn't have enough coffee to really face them all that morning. The argument devolved into whether one should rely on machines to make "important" decisions, or whether a human (I corrected them here, whether a //living)// being should oversee these decisions, something most pro leagues had phased out long ago. |
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| "The amount of fighting, mostly verbal but on one occasion involving fisticuffs, was amazing to be seen and heard. Other teams, older players also practicing in the park, came over to hear the ruckus. The Greens demanded that Mayell-chan was safe, or had been impeded by Grinnel-chan still being in the batter's box through on the other side of home plate. Mayell-chan, livid by this time, even declared that the reason I said the call would stand wasn't that it umpires' calls being respected had been agreed upon beforehand, but because I was biased what with my being 'a girl' and 'girls always stick together' but because I was giving Tumbarello-chan a 'gift' since it was the her birthday. | "The amount of fighting, mostly verbal but on one occasion involving fisticuffs, was amazing to be seen and heard. Other teams, older players also practicing in the park, came over to hear the ruckus. The Greens demanded that Mayell-chan was safe, or had been impeded by Grinnel-chan still being in the batter's box through on the other side of home plate. Mayell-chan, livid by this time, even declared that the reason I said the call would stand wasn't that it umpires' calls being respected had been agreed upon beforehand, but because I was biased what with my being 'a girl' and 'girls always stick together' but because I was giving Tumbarello-chan a 'gift' since it was the her birthday. |
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| | "We went back to class and I asked the students what they had learned that day. Did they prefer the auto-ump's calls, or the living umpires' calls? Very few minds had been changed, of course. So I asked them, 'As spectators, which side do you think was more fun?' The Purples thought it was all great fun, most of the Greens thought it was 'okay.' Then I asked them, 'Supposing you were really into baseball, and into keeping track of the game and the plays and the strategy, which side do you think was most //interesting?'// And the concensus came down decidedly on the side with real umpire's making calls which could be argued //ad infinitum.// |
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| | "For the rest of the year, Tumbarello-chan was sure somehow include the word 'out' in every conversation she had, and they were admittedly few, with Mayell-chan. Mayell-chan made sure to report Tumbarello-chan for every perceived infraction of any rule he could think of. |
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| | "Mayell is now an ambitious Starfleet Commodore with many war decorations, I'm told, and Tumbarello-chan, now Dr. Shimbo-san, is a Captain. And when they're together, they still act like ten-year-olds." |
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