Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Schooling Skip: Optical Illusions

As the Pirates-Braves blown call from last night is the biggest sports story of the day (already written about in the previous post), of course Skip Bayless has an opinion on it.


This is an optical illusion:


This is the play at the plate:


One is "characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality." [Wikipedia]

The other is objective reality.

Just because you can't tell what the outcome of an event was, does not mean that the event was an optical illusion.



[Photo via The Big Lead via Getty]