Here's a number that should make every baseball fan's blood boil: 850 missed calls in the first seven days of the MLB season. Eight hundred and fifty. Of those, only 155 were overturned on review, according to a video compilation showing the worst offenders.Look, I love the human element of baseball as much as anyone. I grew up watching umpires become part of the game's lore. But folks, this is getting embarrassing. We're not talking about bang-bang plays at first base or close calls on the corners. We're talking about pitches that are six inches outside the zone being called strikes. Pitches in the dirt. Pitches at the letters.The video showing the 10 worst called strikeouts from the first week is absolutely damning. These aren't marginal mistakes—they're egregious blown calls that directly affected the outcome of at-bats, innings, and potentially games. And these are supposedly the best umpires in the world.Here's what really gets me: we have the technology to fix this. Right now. Today. The automated ball-strike system—robot umps, if you will—exists and works. Minor league parks have been using it for years. The accuracy rate is essentially perfect. So why are we still pretending like we need humans making 850 mistakes in seven days?I know what the traditionalists will say: it's part of the game, it always has been, don't mess with baseball's soul. You know what else was part of the game? No instant replay. No pitch clocks. No defensive shifts ban. The game evolves. It has to.And right now, the game is being damaged by umpires who can't—or won't—get calls right at an acceptable rate. More than 100 missed calls per day across the league is not a quirk. It's a crisis.Major League Baseball needs to stop dragging its feet and implement automated balls and strikes at the big league level. Not in five years. Not in two years. Now. The technology exists. The need is obvious. And the fans—and players—deserve better than this.That's what sports is all about, folks—getting the calls right so the best team wins, not the team that benefits from incompetent officiating.