This whole premise results from the undemanding, human scale of baseball, which is a game of inches and minutes rather than millimeters and thousandths of seconds. In the racing disciplines, machinery for fact-finding has been employed for decades, and currently routinely measures intervals in space and time too small for human cognition to approach.

Gee, I don't know. Have horse-racing photofinish cameras tried yet?

I take it this is a "popular" culture allusion. Is it funny?

Sports provide a poor framework for discussion of criminal justice fact-finding, because, despite the sporting allusions in the vocabulary of adjudication, the social environments are so fundamentally different. As I was taught by one of the great high-middlebrow baseball metaphorists, Bart Giamatti, I'm relatively hard to impress with yet another way to make baseball into a microcosm of the human condition of struggle with fate and the universe, or whatever. But this one, I must admit, surprises me slightly. What matters in games is making decisions that fit within the time-discipline of the game. Decisions and appeals must occur more or less immediately. Factual dispute—although it may, as you say, involve intention—is usually of the kind a laser beam can resolve: the establishment of an accurate mark in spacetime, or the compliance of equipment with required specification. Where, as in the America's Cup, the fact-finding becomes more difficult, it is sport that has use for adjudication, rather than the other way around.