Errors

It is October baseball time...

The big games.
Honestly, I haven't really paid much attention this year to the sport.
Too many other priorities.

There is even a little summer college league team that plays here.
Didn't catch a single game.

Anyway, enough about me and my baseball watching habits...

The New Yorker ran this interesting article on errors in baseball.

Baseball has another vision. It is a spectacle of fairness as well as of accomplishment. What are we watching when we watch a game of baseball? We are witnessing the progression of a struggle toward an outcome through which the skill and power of the players and the team can be expressed, like in any sport, but we are also watching the lines of a moral universe being demarcated in a game played, uniquely, without time. The error declares that might is not always right, that win and loss is an insufficient measure of the experience of human contest. The error belongs to the moral dimension of American life—a highly systematic, entirely futile effort to imagine the terms of a perfect world inside even so minor a forum as the official rulebook of a boys’ game.

You could probably skip it if you are not a fan, but I found it worth a read...