The document describes a tour guide explaining the game of baseball to an alien observing from a blimp over a stadium. The tour guide answers the alien's questions by explaining that a game is a competition between teams with established rules where people support teams to feel part of a community. The tour guide realizes that values like community and winning/losing have to be explained as they may not seem logical to an outsider like the alien.

1. Tour Guide for an Alien
Pretend that you have been assigned the task of conducting a tour for aliens who are visiting earth and
observing human life. You're riding along in a blimp, and you float over a professional baseball stadium.
One of your aliens looks down and becomes very confused, so you tell him that there is a game going
on.
Answer the following questions for him.
1. What is a game? It is where you and your team play another team by drawn out rules for the win.
2. Why are there no female players? Female players have their own form softball.
3. Why do people get so passionate watching other people play games? Either they like to think they
could do all of that stuff or just to have something to support and feel like a team with.
4. What is a team? A group of people playing together for the same goal
5. Why can't the people in the seats just go down on the field and join in? It would be hectic and the
ump would have no control
If you try to answer these questions fully, it will quickly become apparent that we carry around certain
assumptions and values. We support a certain team, for instance, because it makes us feel like we're a
part of a community. This sense of community is a value that matters to some people more than others.
Furthermore, when trying to explain team sports to an alien, you have to explain the value we put on
winning and losing.
When you think like an alien tour guide, you are forced to take a deeper look at the things we do and
things we value. They don't always sound so logical and true from the outside looking in!