Bird Seed

Bird Seed
Description	Birds like to eat Bird Seed. They'll peck those with Bird Seed out of peanut shells more often. Because they like to eat Bird Seed.
Debut	Season β10
Duration	Permanent
Target(s)	Team or Player
Cause(s)	Blessing, Items

Bird Seed is a Team Modification, granted to the New York Millennials during the Season β10 Elections as part of the Bird Seed Blessing. It is also a Player Modification which can be conferred through Items.

Effects

Since Season β7,   players have a chance of pecked free and returning to normal play in Birds weather. Players on a team with the Bird Seed Modification have an increased likelihood of being Deshelled, and Players with an Item-based version of the Bird Seed Modification presumably experience the same.

Due to limited sample sizes (three bird-related deshellings before the introduction of Bird Seed, and thirteen after) many aspects about this modification remain unknown:

• If   players on teams playing against a team with Bird Seed will have improved chances of being pecked free in Birds weather
• If   players on the same team as a player with Bird Seed will have improved chances of being pecked free in Birds weather
  • If the single player with Bird Seed is a pitcher (e.g. Shirai McElroy), whether the odds of being pecked free for other players change between when the pitcher in question is pitching or not
• If the in-game message "The Birds circle ... but they don't find what they're looking for." occurs more often in Birds weather with teams/players who have Bird Seed

History

The New York Millennials and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Ineffectual Blessing

In the Season β10 Elections, the New York Millennials received the Bird Seed modification as a result of winning the Bird Seed blessing. They won this with 20% of the vote, compared to the 21% vote share of highest bidders the Unlimited Tacos.

In their fourteen-season history of possessing the Modification, the New York Millennials have never had a   player on their team. Across twenty-six regular season series against teams with a   player, the Millennials have never participated in a game where a player on an opposing team was deshelled.

Shirai McElroy and the Unholy Confluence of Hitherto-Unseen Item Modifications

Bird Seed remained a exclusive, if worthless, Modification for the New York Millennials until Season β24, Day 37. On this day, a Prize Match in Glitter weather took place between the Core Mechanics and the Boston Flowers.

Shirai McElroy (a Mechanics pitcher who was not pitching at the time) gained the contents of a shimmering crate at the start of Mechanics' first inning - the Crow-Cursed Helmet of Bird Seed. This marks the only time, to date, that the Bird Seed Modification has generated on an Item.

As McElroy was neither   nor a lineup player for the remainder of the Expansion Era, Curse of Crows had no noticable effect on them in the two further games they enjoyed in Birds weather before the Nullification of Blaseball - on days 66 and 86.