BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Indoctrination, and Optimism Bias, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 22.5% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 231 faulty-reasoning hits from 204 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.5% and a BS Rank of 61% (10,176 of 25,563 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 60.20% of the article peer group.
Admittedly, I don’t know much about baseball—but I do know that watching the first home run of the Women’s Professional Baseball League on Saturday night was incredibly cool.
You have to watch the New York Heights’ Denae Benites smash it out of the park during a rain-filled game against the Los Angeles Queens:
I love the spin and jump from the pitcher, Ayami Sato—the starter for Japan's national women's team—in following the hit as she watches the ball sail above everyone’s head.
At the same time, Benites runs around the bases and then through a tunnel of her jubilant teammates.
Yes, it’s a historic home run, but it's also a familiar scene to any sports fan—the celebration from Benites' team, the disappointment from the Los Angeles Queens (that disappointment didn't last long though—the Queens responded with six unanswered runs in the last two innings to win).
Even though I had never been much of a baseball fan, the long-overdue debut of the WPBL has me excited about the sport for the first time (I even learned what an RBI is!).
If you missed the first game, I'd urge you to check out the league's inaugural season, which runs through mid-September.
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