Ultimately, the day will come where everything except balls and strikes will be reviewable in baseball.

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In baseball, umpires are supposed to call balls and strikes based on where a ball crosses home plate.

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During Justice Roberts's confirmation hearings back in 2005, he described judges as umpires whose job it is to call balls and strikes as he sees them.

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Too often we have allowed ourselves to be placated and charmed by fantasies about umpire judges calling "balls and strikes, " without ever asking which league the game is being played in or whether the umpire was standing in the best position to see the play.

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No one wants to do that with strikes and balls.

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As Williams revealed in his 1971 book The Science of Hitting, he swung at balls that landed in his best cells and let the others whizz by, even if it meant being called out on strikes once in a while.

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