<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> DRS referrals still take time (a minute or two at least), so eliminating umpires would slow down the game a lot. And the fielding team would be able to use frivolous appeals to waste time. </p><p>Better to leave it to player-initiated reviews, within the usual limit of 2 or 3 per innings.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neeran" class="u-url mention">@<span>neeran</span></a></span> I&#39;m curious, once you take out Umpire&#39;s Call, *why do we still need umpires*? Either the decision is obvious (as is mostly the case for bowled and caught), or it goes to replay anyway (catches near the ground, stumpings, snickos, etc.). Once in a rare while they even obstruct the play. Why, other than tradition, not replace them with a clothes rack? (More sponsorship opportunities! And the rack can&#39;t be accused of bias for which balls it blocked, etc.)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@neeran" class="u-url mention">@<span>neeran</span></a></span> Yeah, absolutely all of this. </p><p>Also, to the last point, it irks me immensely that we have decades of research into how to present data with uncertainty (eg, the &quot;cone of uncertainty&quot; used for hurricane predictions), yet even the most basic aspects of that have not made it into DRS. You thus end up with great cricketers inadvertently making fools of themselves by talking about &quot;the ball hitting the stumps&quot;. ↵</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://qoto.org/@robryk" class="u-url mention">@<span>robryk</span></a></span> i sterilized a piece of wire and shoved it in until the nerve stopped hurting</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@shardulc" class="u-url mention">@<span>shardulc</span></a></span> Not bad!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span><br />My main issue leaving Twitter is everyone that&#39;s still on it. It&#39;s still big in Japan, so a lot of the people I follow from there still use it, and certain niche communities I follow still use it too. Wish they&#39;d pick anything else, even Threads, at least with that I could potentially follow them in the future if they enable Fediverse integration.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> I have my politics side on bsky now.</p>

<p>Tulsi Gabbard&#39;s intended appointment is like a consolation prize for Indian botanists: couldn&#39;t get a Kamala (lotus) as POTUS, but might be getting a Tulsi (basil) in National Intelligence.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> You&#39;re right tbh Using X isn&#39;t really worth it.</p>