The following episode of the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast will open with a baseball story.

If you don't speak baseball, don't worry, it'll all make sense in the end. I saw something in a baseball game that I've never ever seen before last summer and I've played a lot of baseball

So it's an unusual thing for me to say it was the Dodgers and the Cubs playing and it was the ninth inning there were two out and the Dodgers

have this excellent closer named Kenley Janssen and he's in there with two down

and a runner on second base no big deal because they're up two runs. So that guy in second, he doesn't

matter really at all. But Janssen starts thinking that that runner on second is

stealing the signals that the catcher is giving the pitcher and

somehow relaying that to the batter. That's not paranoid. That kind of thing happens in

baseball. And so Janssen starts doing the math and he's like, you know what,

I'm gonna do something that seems really

counterintuitive. He turns to his defenders and mouths the words, I'm going to

intentionally bulk. Now a bulk in baseball is bad for the defensive team. It's when a pitcher makes a movement

that tries to deceive the runner like goes halfway through a pitching motion the

runner is awarded a free base for that when it happens.

You don't want to do it.

But Janssen does it really ugly and super on purpose and obviously and the

umpires like, okay, I guess you advanced to third base and the runner does, and then Janssen goes on to focus on the batter at the plate,

finishes him off, they win the game.

Now when it was going down, it looks like the opposite of a good strategy it looks like you're trying to hurt

yourself but in hindsight hey there's method to the madness here and you then

understand what the strategy was all about.

Likewise, there's always a likewise.

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