HELLO, YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING RECORDED

Every time a baseball gets thrown a handful of cameras around the stadium track the pitch's exact release point in space, the ball's rpm, vertical drop, horizontal movement, speed. The result of every pitch is tracked. If it's hit the exit velocity and launch angle is tracked along with all fielders' movement to the ball. Baseball has always been a game built around information and trends like where a pitcher throws his slider compared to his fastball,  or which hitters are pure power guys or can also get on base at a good enough clip. The last decade in baseball has been one giant, still ongoing experiment into finding the balance between analytics and intuition. How much information is too much for the player to handle.

A privacy journalist named Sam Biddle uploads scans of cold war era photo slides from Pentagon presentations onto the Internet Archive. Things like cross section diagrams of Soviet missiles, US military intelligence service logos, graphs of distance vs payload. There was a war being waged by information, won by which force knew more secrets about the other, and information collection meant strength. 

Of course now in the information age our own daily habits are weapons used against us by corporations and governments in order to make money. How far we've come in the name of determining lineup construction and pitching changes tells us how good we've gotten at collecting and indexing our personal data for power and money. Everyday actions and relationships are being tracked by the reign of data collection for monetary gain. Information as a utility in its own right has given way to information being used to make money, done digitally but playing out in the field.