Beware of the strike ball.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           In baseball you hear the famous, "Steeeeerike - - - -". Now we think that the hitter missed a pitch or that the pitcher threw a good pitch. Did the pitcher fool the batter or was the hitter fooled by the pitcher. Oh, you get it already. The two descriptions in the previous statement both say the same thing, however they are presented in a fashion that suggests two different things unless you take the time to study it more thoroughly. This is how easily we can be duped into a new idea. Pitchers are not in the business of throwing perfect pitches for a hitter to swing at. They very rarely throw the same pitch over and over again. Why? Because a hitter gets smart real quick. He has that sweet zone that if a pitch enters it, it triggers an almost automatic response to swing at the pitch. In the time that he has analyzed that it appears to be entering the zone and the time he takes in swinging at the ball in the zone, the ball can do some really crazy stuff. You see a pitcher is a salesman. He has a car to sell. In this case a baseball. He wants it to be as attractive and hittable as he can make it. He rubs it around in his hand, he spits on it, he puts dirt on it and even rubs it on his glove. He holds it in a variety of grips putting his fingers on and off the threads. The way he has his release and speed are some of the many techniques that he implements in throwing the ball. Are we getting the picture yet. Are we already detoxing the media and hype that we have used to motivate us. Come on!! Let it go. It's funny that I would even mention baseball seeing that it, along with hot dogs and apple pie are on the top three on a list of most favorite things in the United States. Wow they have us right were they want us. There is a ton of money at stake here. What would happen if they declared that apple pie and hot dogs were harmful to us. Don't step on their toes. Big business supports big business. Doctors and those involved with the nutritional facts that we receive in promotion and packaging are not going to tell us the whole truth. Why if they did, the junk would disappear along with the doctors and producers of packaged foods. Thus a bust in the Medical field and all the money associated with it. Processing would cease to exist. People would surround the soup-less soup kitchens for miles. The FDA needs something to keep themselves in business. The same with the police and case workers. They need irresponsible or ignorant people to keep them in business. There are courts that convict and impose penalties from insanity, perversion all the way to civil non-compliance. All of this represents a need that us tax paying folk keep enabling. We have developed or they have done a great job of installing fear and anxiety in our culture.