Sport feeling the butterfly effect

When a butterfly’s wings beat somewhere, something else happens somewhere else to someone else altogether.

Granted, that may not be the verbatim quote, but you understand the basic principle behind chaos theory: ramifications, seen and unseen.

Take for instance the new political benevolence being expressed by the US towards Cuba. This has all sorts of political and economic implications, but sports geeks in America have zeroed in on one obvious result which has electrified aficionados of one sport: baseball.