The red pill.

Remember that scene in "The Matrix" where Keanu Reeves decides to take the red pill and learn the truth?

The truth is shocking and hurtful.

The truth shattered paradigms.

The truth is that the computers had beaten humans in a big war and that humans were being harvested for their electricity. The perceived world was just, I guess, the computer-generated Matrix, or something.

Point being, it's unsettling when the foundations of your belief systems are revealed to be lies.


I think Mike Lupica experienced a similar phenomenon when Alex Rodriguez hit a game-winning two-out ninth-inning homerun off Jonathan Papelbon.