Hi, I'm Morgan Sung, host of Close All Tabs from KQED, part of the NPR network, where every week we reveal how the online world collides with everyday life.

You don't know what's true or not, because you don't know if AI was involved in it.

And I think we will see it to a streamer president, maybe within our lifetimes.

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My favorite season starts this week.

Baseball season.

As a kid, I loved the sound of the ball hitting the bat at the San Diego Padre Games.

I thought I could actually hear it when it was going to be a good hit and someone would be getting on base.

I was also fascinated by curve balls.

Like, how did the pitchers get those things to curve like that?

And I had heard that there were stadiums that were easier to get home runs in.

Frederick Bertley was also fascinated by baseball as a kid.

And he also loved science and math.

And he would go on to get his Ph.D. in immunology.

But when he was a kid, he loved rooting for his local pro baseball team, the Montreal Expos,

which have since relocated to Washington, D.C. as the nationals.

And he was inspired to try his hand at it, too.

And I'm embarrassed to say this on national public radio.

I was terrible.

I couldn't hit the ball.

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