I once made a comment that baseball was an easy sport. Someone corrected me and said hitting a baseball is one of the hardest things to do in sports.
So it is measured in batting averages.
"One of the oldest and most universal tools to measure a hitter's success at the plate, batting average is determined by dividing a player's hits by his total at-bats for a number between zero (shown as .000) and one (1.000). In recent years, the league-wide batting average has typically hovered around .250."
per this site: https://www.mlb.com/glossary/standard-stats/batting-average
So what does it really mean? .25.
So hypothetically if you were up to bat 4 times you would you would have 3 strikes for the first three times at bat and two for the last time at bat and instead of the last ball pitched being a strike you hit it? And that would give you a .25 average?
So one out of 12? Follow the math?
But lets just say it is really one out of four times at bat is what is represented by the stat. Then perhaps that is hard?
But one out of 12? I mean really? Who couldn't do that much?
And I am sure it is nothing like hitting balls at a batting cage.
But one out of 12? That is all you have to do?
I think there is a lot of pomp and circumstance as to who makes these teams.
And I don't believe we should value these entertainment dollars as highly as we do.
Why? It breeds and supports malcontents.
IMHO
You know what else? If you throw a ball so fast you beam someone and potentially kill them, you should never have made the team. What do you value? What does the person who promoted you value? That is a different kind of winning isn't it. And it is amorality at its best.
© 2022 Thomas Murphy
Every member of the public ought to have a chance to hit 1 of 12 baseballs from the pitcher of the local big league baseball team for a chance to win that salary for a year, for nothing else needs to be done!"
"In the land of Tom! Tom's rules will legally prevail someday!" :)
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