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humor Babylon Bee 2026-03-24

Umpires Replaced with Cardboard Cutouts in MLB's Latest Gamble

Major League Baseball is ditching human umpires for cardboard cutouts – because who needs actual humans, anyway?


<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/articles/69c2e2bd47ec669c2e2bd47ec7.jpg" style="width: 100%;" width="400" /><p>NEW YORK, NY β€” As part of its ongoing agenda to minimize human errors that affect games, Major League Baseball announced that, in addition to using the "Automated Ball-Strike System" technology, all umpires would be replaced with cardboard cutouts.</p>

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