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[โ€“] Wretched_Shirkaday@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There's still a lot of rules in baseball that the written definition of what is and isn't rule breaking is left up to the umps judgement. Check swings, turning to second after reaching first, etc. Soccer has a lot less rules and they're less subjective. Plus MLB umps can just do whatever they want without repercussion.

[โ€“] AutisticNipples@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Agreed, but I think those things are easier to "make objective" in the rulebook than say determining what constitutes a legal/illegal tackle, what behavior deserves a yellow card, etc.

It's hard to officiate what one person is doing, but when you bring physical contact with another person into the mix, i feel like the complexity increases exponentially .