Marlins Jumbotron Displays Message Saying Free Trial Of ABS System Has Ended | The Onion
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The Miami Marlins' scoreboard allegedly flashed a software-style 'free trial expired' notice for MLB's new Automated Ball-Strike system, treating cutting-edge baseball tech like a forgotten Norton antivirus subscription. It's a perfect deadpan collision of corporate software culture and America's pastime, landing the punchline entirely in the headline with zero wasted words.
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Turns out baseball's robo-ump experiment was just a 30-day Audacity trial the whole time.
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