• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Everyone over here being like “actually calling it a ritual is accurate”. Meanwhile I’m like “Hold the fuck on. How exactly is baseball considered ‘divination’?”

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      4 months ago

      The absolute best MLB teams only win 60-70% of their games. Individual games are basically a coin flip, trying to discern skill and forecast future performance may as well be a divination ritual. We just decided that statistics is a better name than omens.

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      4 months ago

      If a bird flying by gets obliterated by a 103-mph fast ball, it signifies a bad harvest.