For the Love of the Game
I’m a fan of the game. Always have been.
But let’s be honest: the game is full of flaws. Prediction masquerading as conviction. Reports dressed up as truth. Decks, hedges, scenarios — bluffs passed off as edge.
I’ve seen all of it. I’ve lived it. And I got sick of it.
So I did the only thing you can do if you actually want to improve the game:
I moved a layer above it.
In over 150 years and more than 238,000 Major League Baseball (MLB) games, only 24 perfect games have ever been recorded. This equates to a perfect game occurring roughly once every 10,000 games, making the odds about 0.01% or 1 in 9,928 games. A perfect game means the pitcher (or pitchers) retires every batter without allowing any to reach base by any means—no hits, walks, errors, or hit batsmen—over at least nine innings.
This rarity highlights the difficulty and significance of the feat, involving a precise combination of skill, defense, and some luck, as even a single baserunner spoils the perfection. Recent decades have seen some increase in the frequency but still maintain its status as one of the most elusive accomplishments in sports.
Improvement Doesn’t Come From Playing Harder
You can’t out-bluff a bluffer. You can’t out-predict a predictor. That’s just playing deeper into the same flaw.
Improvement comes from refusing to play at that level at all. From moving upstream. From authorship and continuity — where you write the tempo instead of guessing it, where you leave receipts instead of reports.
Not For Everyone
And here’s the truth: what I’m doing isn’t for everyone.
Most of the market needs the comfort of consensus. They need probability, hedges, and reports. They need prediction, even when it fails them.
That’s fine. Let them have it.
Because the very fact that this isn’t for everyone is exactly what makes it priceless aka the most valuable asset in the world.
Edge has no value if it’s crowded.
Authorship only works if it remains rare.
Ninth Inning
I’m not here to tear the game down.
I’m here because I’m a fan of it.
But being a fan doesn’t mean turning a blind eye to its flaws. It means improving it, and the only way to improve it is to move a layer above it.
That’s what I’ve done.
That’s why it works.
For the love of the game: Pursuing the Perfect Game.