A Canadian Literary Journal
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Daddy Hack
by Jeff Dupuis
Spectators on blankets dotted the hills around Dominico Field. Bicycles lay on the grass. Old timers sat in folding chairs along the rim of the hill, having arrived before the national anthem was played over the PA system. Fans continued to trickle in throughout the first few innings, searching for a free patch of grass, ready for a summer night’s ballgame after a long day.
It was just me; the AI was not watching the ballgame. Its software was not mapping the eyes, nose and jawline of the batter, the pitcher or the players on the field bent over in wide stances, gazing towards home plate. It was not following the ball, calculating its speed, or projecting possible trajectories. It simply “read” the data being entered into the system—balls and strikes, homers and outs, and each play as recorded by the […]
