The Random Baseball Effect

Baseball can be an intriguing metaphor for life. Most go to a game to enjoy themselves. Some leave with their lives never the same again.

If you’ve been to a good share of baseball games, you know how you have to abide by a few unwritten rules. One is that unless you sit way up in the farthest nose-bleed seats, you have to keep your eye on the ball to make sure it doesn’t crash into you. If a ball comes barreling towards you at 100 miles per hour or so, you have to decide in a split-second whether you are going to try to catch it, deflect it, or just duck.