Accomplished German filmmaker Werner Herzog is not a baseball fan, per se. He is, however, a particularly astute observer of the human condition — which qualification lends to his thoughts on the cruel beauty of Matt Harvey’s slider a real and certain credibility.

Here, for the benefit of the readership, is a brief audio clip of Herzog commenting upon the meaning and significance of the slider (to Jedd Gyorko, from Harvey’s start last Wednesday) shown above:

Werner Herzog on Matt Harvey’s Slider