The magical thing about flexibility is that there’s no limit to what it could be. Flexibility can be the first six-tool player, because it created a whole new tool that no one’s ever thought of before. It can evoke some new adjective that Roger Angell’s never thought of before, a swing that makes an entirely new sound when the bat strikes the ball, some new chord that adds a ninth note to the scale, never before conceived.

Think of it. Think of the beauty of infinite trade trees spiraling outward, a mosaic of untapped potential, universes of universes of success. Everything is worth more in the future. Imagine the power of expectation, of the game not yet underway, of children waiting impatiently in front of the Christmas tree on December 23. What we mean to say is that a single seed is worth more than a whole watermelon, assuming it’s a seedless watermelon, and the weird translucent semiseeds inside the watermelon that we just eat aren’t actually real seeds. We’re scouts, not botanists.