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    • zigmus64
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      Baseball (and sports in general) are wonderful man made examples of evolution and how selection pressure can force the expression of certain traits. About 25% of MLB players are left handed, versus about 10% in the general population.

      A similar thing has occurred in the NBA where the average height is about 6’6” (or 198.6cm for those opposed to Freedom Units), which is about 8 inches taller than the average American male.

      Doubtless, you can look at any top level professional sport league and find some physical trait (or set of traits) that is wholly disproportionate compared to the general population due to those traits providing some advantage(s) that is unique to that game.

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        That’s true And what I was (jokingly) referencing

        But, my Dad’s mother, my Granny

        She was a natural Lefty

        And musically inclined

        Her Daddy slacked the strings on the family guitar before he left for work

        She figured out how to tune that instrument

        Those in her church, later, made fun of her for playing backwards chords, because she was a lefty. .

        She learned to play the other way, too And she taught me both

        There’s so many sides and nuances to every thought in our lives

        It was a harmless joke, but it has roots in my reality

        This shit is so often much deeper than we think

        You made a fuckin hell of a statement, but it’s without context or understanding

        I was just making an off-handed joke

        There is a fucking shitload of lefties in baseball Because it fucks with the righties when they’re batting

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          When people use that many ellipses it makes it look like they haven’t made up their mind, so their opinions can be ignored.

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            Oh I thought it was like a poem or something because of all the line breaks and ellipses. But it’s just a regular comment?