BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Optimism Bias, and Recency Bias, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 65.2% saturation with 133 hits. Analysis detected 772 faulty-reasoning hits from 204 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 73% and a BS Rank of 86% (3,752 of 26,162 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 85.70% of the article peer group.

Admittedly, I don’t know much about baseball—but I do know that watching the first home run of the Women’s Professional Baseball League on Saturday night was incredibly cool. 
You have to watch the New York Heights’ Denae Benites smash it out of the park during a rain-filled game against the Los Angeles Queens: 
I love the spin and jump from the pitcher, Ayami Sato—the starter for Japan's national women's team—in following the hit as she watches the ball sail above everyone’s head. 
At the same time, Benites runs around the bases and then through a tunnel of her jubilant teammates. 
Yes, it’s a historic home run, but it's also a familiar scene to any sports fan—the celebration from Benites' team, the disappointment from the Los Angeles Queens (that disappointment didn't last long though—the Queens responded with six unanswered runs in the last two innings to win). 
Even though I had never been much of a baseball fan, the long-overdue debut of the WPBL has me excited about the sport for the first time (I even learned what an RBI is!). 
If you missed the first game, I'd urge you to check out the league's inaugural season, which runs through mid-September. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 2.8%Mother Jones: 3.8%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.8%Mother Jones: 0.6%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 12.3%Alex Nguyen: 2.8%Mother Jones: 3.0%Availability Heuristic12.3%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.9%Mother Jones: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.3%Mother Jones: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.5%Mother Jones: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 22.5%Alex Nguyen: 5.8%Mother Jones: 6.4%Framing Effect22.5%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.6%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.4%Mother Jones: 0.6%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 16.7%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect16.7%This article: 32.8%Alex Nguyen: 1.0%Mother Jones: 1.4%Optimism Bias32.8%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 1.4%Mother Jones: 1.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 22.5%Alex Nguyen: 6.6%Mother Jones: 8.8%Negativity Bias22.5%This article: 13.7%Alex Nguyen: 1.5%Mother Jones: 0.9%Self-Serving Bias13.7%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.7%Mother Jones: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.3%Mother Jones: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 8.8%Alex Nguyen: 1.1%Mother Jones: 1.0%In-Group Bias8.8%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 14.2%Alex Nguyen: 1.8%Mother Jones: 1.3%Halo Effect14.2%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.0%Mother Jones: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 32.4%Alex Nguyen: 1.5%Mother Jones: 1.1%Recency Bias32.4%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.0%Mother Jones: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.5%Mother Jones: 1.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.5%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 3.5%Mother Jones: 3.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.9%Mother Jones: 1.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.6%Mother Jones: 1.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 22.5%Alex Nguyen: 3.4%Mother Jones: 4.4%Hasty Generalization22.5%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 9.8%Alex Nguyen: 0.4%Mother Jones: 0.5%Bandwagon9.8%This article: 9.8%Alex Nguyen: 6.1%Mother Jones: 6.1%Appeal to Emotion9.8%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.5%Mother Jones: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 1.8%Mother Jones: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.5%Mother Jones: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 65.2%Alex Nguyen: 1.9%Mother Jones: 2.2%Anecdotal65.2%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 1.2%Mother Jones: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.0%Mother Jones: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.0%Mother Jones: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.1%Mother Jones: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 1.9%Mother Jones: 1.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 1.2%Mother Jones: 1.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 46.6%Alex Nguyen: 3.8%Mother Jones: 7.9%Biased Writer Voice46.6%This article: 26.5%Alex Nguyen: 1.1%Mother Jones: 1.6%Indoctrination26.5%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 1.3%Mother Jones: 4.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Alex Nguyen: 0.2%Mother Jones: 0.3%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 22.1%Alex Nguyen: 0.3%Mother Jones: 0.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…22.1%

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