They need to install blue lasers in the ground and pointing upward along the front edge of home plate, and two sets of yellow lasers from the letters to the knees, even with the front edge of home plate from each dugout (one for righty batters and one for lefty batters). Turn them on at full power as soon as the ball leaves the pitchers hand - he will have to paint his fingernails with a special reflective surface - and shut them off 1 second later. The skin of the ball should also be made of laser reflective material so that the ball will turn green (blue AND yellow) as it passes home plate if it is in the strike zone. The reflected laser from the ball could be sent to a GPS satellite over the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean and relayed to the STRIZOSAT in geostationary orbit over the Indian ocean, which will verify it was indeed a strike or not, then that info would be relayed back to the umpire's GPS transponder at which point he would call a 'ball' or a STEEEEEEEE-RIKE!
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