Calling all Conspiracy Theorists - Brad Paisley

[Tedlark]

So, Brad Paisley sang the National Anthem at the World Series game played on Monday, October 27, 2025. It was the fourth time he sang the National Anthem at a World Series game.

Last night the game went into extra innings. The other three time Brad Paisley sang the National Anthem at a World Series game, all three games went into extra innings.

Paging Scully & Mulder.....

[TripleTriple]

I love paisley...the pattern.

[dinghy]

I hope they raised a lot of money to find a cure.

[New2vp]

I believe there have been 68 extra-inning games in World Series history, including all 3 tied games. In total, through last evening, there have been 704 World Series games; so, the percentage that went extra frames is about 9.66%. The odds of selecting any 4 historical World Series games at random and having had them all go extra innings would then be about 12,460 to 1.

If that percentage of extra-inning games goes forward into the future, the odds would be slightly better at 11,487 to one. The small difference is due to a comparison of sampling without replacement vs. sampling with replacement.

Is anybody convinced that Mr. Paisley's voice will have a statistically significant higher chance of causing the next such game to go into extra innings? Or, contrarily, that the "law of averages" will tend to make those chances lower than normal?

[Tedlark]

Adding to the intrigue, Brad Paisley is good friends with William Shatner. You know, Captain James Tiberius Kirk? I'm now thinking alien intelligence is involved in some way. I think Paisley's guitar was recovered from the Roswell, NM wreckage (you know, the wreckage from 1947) and in reality the guitar is an alien ray gun that Paisley pointed at the baseball players. The ray gun, err, guitar, then emitted a high pitched sound that only the baseball players could hear and this caused them to take the game into extra innings.