This isn’t a great look for Jen, I’ll be honest.<\/p>\n
PublishedMarch 20, 2026 8:23 AM EDT\u2022UpdatedMarch 20, 2026 8:23 AM EDT<\/p>\n
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The ABS system in Major League Baseball<\/a> is going to make a lot of people look really, really bad this season. I’m personally not the biggest fan of it, but I get it, and I’m excited to see the chaos that’s about to unfold starting next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n Well, scratch that. Forget waiting until the regular season opens in a few days. Why wait, when we can all laugh now?\u00a0<\/p>\n Let’s do it!<\/p>\n Jen Pawol, who made history last season as the first female home plate umpire,<\/a> is the latest victim of the AI boom.\u00a0<\/p>\n Join the club, Jen! It’s getting full in here, so get a seat now!<\/p>\n Pawol was umping a Guardians-Reds spring training game this week, when she called a pitch literally right down the middle \u2026 a ball. I mean, it couldn’t have been more down the middle if it were put on a tee.\u00a0<\/p>\n Don’t know what happened to Jen here, but she missed it, and ‘ol reliable ABS had to come in and clean up the mess:<\/p>\n Tough look for Jen Pawol here<\/p>\n Whoaaaaaaaaa Nellie! Tough look here for Jen. And before you come after me for being sexist or racist or misogynistic or whatever this makes me \u2026 don’t. I wrote about ABS making a male umpire look just as silly<\/a> earlier this spring. I don’t want to hear it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Fair is fair, and this is an objectively awful, yet hilarious, call. Jen Pawol just happens to be the one making it.\u00a0<\/p>\n Look, I’m pretty on the fence about ABS. Again, I get it. I know the technology is available, which means we have to use it. Calls like this are atrocious, and shouldn’t happen. They should be fixed ASAP, and they will be moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n But, I also don’t love taking humans out of baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n