The Way We Look at Things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The impeccably manicured landscape of the outer-field of play, along with the intoxicating aroma of freshly cut grass, elicited an inspired inhalation which prompted from Plato\u2019s lips an exuberant burst of tri-purposeful poetic praise (encomium) to the majestic Creator of the entire awesome manifested spectacle, the magnanimous composure of all the participants, and the magnificent beauty and elegance of the colossal setting (backdrop) encompassing the divinely choreographed production:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cO thou all-enchanting youthful vigor, how envious am I that thou hast poured into these boys of radiant summer thy spirit of excessive energy and grace. And how the one Creative Form implores your intensity to spark an inferno of teleological support from an adoring vicarious entourage, whose clamoring and intoxicated reverberations fuel the deepest chambers of infinitesimal expanse to implode and expand the centrifugal borders of vast and heroic accomplishment. And from this parallel ground-level view, the mountainous peaks of illuminating speckled waves pour down radiating light to delineate the circulating mists of enthusiastic display, below the multi-layered gradient of uncountable populace — Truly an exhilarating instant to cherish, as with a lifetime of sacred and precious mementos!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And Socrates, a short smile perforating his stolid cheeks, responds with laconic brevity, \u201cSo true!\u201d But, while ambling casually from \u2018hinder-land\u2019 toward what is termed \u2018infield,\u2019 in baseball vernacular, after watching just a few of the bats-men (as they are referred to), his keen geometrical sense of anatomical symmetry and function and architectural stability and visual acuity could not help but make reference to the varied and inconsistent approaches to what he initially thought was a verifiable \u2018techne,\u2019 by which all participants would apply themselves in the same orthodox manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPlato,\u201d he quietly proclaimed, \u201cdoes there not seem to be a lack of precision that apparently affects the degree of mastery to which these batsmen do aspire? But is it not evident that the thrower-of-the ball (pitcher, by trade) magically affects the speed and nuances of the round projectile with a variety of applications of force, from various segments of body and appendages? And how would these batsmen expect to be consistently successful against such a masterful pitcher and precise manipulator of the baseball as our scholarly \u2018Gentleman-Hurler\u2019 affectionately known to Baseball\u2019s early public as \u2018Christian-Matty,\u2019 a true Prestidigitator of Mounds-man-ship\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Plato agrees, and adds, \u201cthis game may very well take upon itself an inexactness equivalent to what that foremost twentieth century luminary, Mr. Einstein, has stated in his quantum attachment to relativity, and reluctantly adopted via Mr. Heisenberg\u2019s Principle, \u2018at the fundamental levels of matter, causation could very well be a matter of statistical probabilities, not certainties.\u2019 However, from my brief and un-confirmable observational standpoint, I cautiously deduce that stability and an optimal viewpoint could secure better than a marginal advantage with which to offset the varying speeds of the ball and allow for more consistent and direct contact with the batting instrument (formally known as a Bat).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(Pondering Plato\u2019s words, Socrates pauses reverentially as he silently reminds himself of a brief but concise inference of an eminent 21st<\/sup> century scholar and motivator, Dr. Wayne Dyer, to a scientific statement of our 20th<\/sup> century physicist, Max Planck, as the vanguard to Einstein\u2019s Quantum Revolution, which implies that \u201cto change the way you look at things, changes the things you look at.\u201d \u2013 (E.g. High or low batting stance and fielding position. A low stance in batting allows batters to see the ball closer to parallel eye level to differentiate strikes from balls. Outfielders and infielders catch fly-balls, groundballs, and thrown-balls while lining up the ball as close as possible to parallel eye level.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n As the next moment awakens Socrates from this brief reverie, he assents with Plato, but quickly inserts that, \u201calthough I feel an innocuous sense of justifiable inquiry, I hesitate to advance a full-scale investigation of the intricacies of our wholesome pastime, for fear of bringing to fruition that which we originally feared might displace our love of the Game. Would it not be wise to observe a while, and further peruse the matter, to estimate more precisely if the foundation and fundamentals of our beloved \u2018stepchild\u2019 are in-deed ill-arranged and in dire need of our perceptive diagnostic care and realignment?\u201d \u201cWise indeed,\u201d asserts Plato. \u201cLet us see what the light of a new day will bring, with its new crop of performers. Is there a generalized \u2018techne\u2019 from which every aspirant to highest achievement must conform? Or does each comply with a different art form? Or are those miscreants of proficiency merely not as evolved as the more proficient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Way We Look at Things: The impeccably manicured landscape of the outer-field of play, along with the intoxicating aroma of freshly cut grass, elicited an inspired inhalation which prompted from Plato\u2019s lips an exuberant burst of tri-purposeful poetic praise (encomium) to the majestic Creator of the entire awesome manifested spectacle, the magnanimous composure … Continue reading Simplicity… – Chapter 2<\/span>