Baseball as Pomo

In his book, “Time For Truth,” apologist Os Guinness helps explain postmodern thought by using an illustration of three baseball umpires discussing their various approaches to calling balls and strikes.

The first umpire represents traditional thought which accepts the concept of absolute truth. “There are balls and there are strikes,” he says, “and I call them the way they are.”

The second ump, representing modern philosophy with its subjective tendencies, denounces the first as arrogant and asserts, “There are balls and there are strikes and I call them the way I see them.”

The third umpire, who represents postmodern thought, dismisses the first two and declares, “There are balls and there are strikes, but they ain’t nothing until I call them.”