Math Velazquez/Speculation

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Speculation about Math Velazquez abounds. Here are some options.

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As the existence of the Alternate Reality decree has shown us, the boundaries between worlds are porous. Let us suppose, then, another world:

Some time ago, a statistics student called Matthew Velazquez, nickname "Math", somehow ended up a pitcher for a major Houston baseball [sic] team. A childhood dream he had long since discarded, abruptly revived by coincidence and circumstance. But then Matthew Velazquez began dreaming of a terrorized league in another reality, a world where people burn to death on the field and a lemniscate god shouts in letters that burn red in the sky.

He looks in the mirror when he wakes up, and does not see himself. He half-expects to be suddenly and instantly yanked away from his home in a screech of feedback. The crunch of peanuts triggers a jolt of terror. He believes himself to be going insane. He's probably even right.

The Immaterial Plane is leaking, that much is clear. But in which direction, I cannot say.

Origins

Math has always existed, for Math is intrinsic in the nature of the cosmos. Some theories suggest that Math was the one who set the universe in motion; in any case, Math is eternal, vast, omnipresent, and the Blaseball player is but a tiny shard.

As reads a letter to the editor that was intercepted before publication in [REDACTED], a popular magazine:

Why has the eternal order of the cosmos chosen to do this? Perhaps it is like Sarl Cagan said: you are the universe experiencing itself. Maybe Math wanted to experience mathself, be on the field of the world rather than in the stands. And so we have Math Velazquez, Blaseball player, a fragment that is very nearly blind in comparison. A single point perspective subject to the chaos and uncertainty of the universe. Just to see what it's like.

Math has made no statements confirming this theory.

Math has made no statements denying this theory.

Speculation abounds.