I Don't Understand How Baseball Works.

This tweet went viral earlier today and I’ve sent it to just about everyone I know hoping we could have a conversation about how incredible it is, because I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve watched it 1,00 times. The only thing it makes me think is, “how does baseball work?”

My grandfather was the biggest baseball fan I’ve ever known so I’ve heard all the cliches. Take a round bat and a round ball and hit it square, it’s the most difficult thing to do in sports, blah blah blah. But this is absurd. I know it’s ’99 Pedro, the best pitcher in the history of baseball, but I think you could do a video like this with any MLB pitcher and I’d be just as stunned. How in the fuck do you hit that? It literally seems impossible. They could throw a pitch to me from a mile away and I still couldn’t get it together in time to hit it.

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You have to start swinging before he releases the ball then hope you figure out the location in nanoseconds and pray it isn’t off speed. That’s just dumb. Honestly, that’s the only way to describe it. Dumb. It just goes to prove my longstanding belief that professional athletes aren’t human beings. They’re a different species. They look different, they act different, their bodies are different, and they have different skills. They’re not like me and you. They can slow down time, locate a pitch, and hit them further than you can drive on a full tank of gas.

Baseball makes no fucking sense. That’s why it’s one of the best games in the world.