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’?”
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.
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’?”
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.
If a bird flying by gets obliterated by a 103-mph fast ball, it signifies a bad harvest.
102-mph fastballs mean a good harvest. baseball is so complicated
Divination is a delicate art, not a science.