Can’t take credit for the line — I’m pretty sure it’s from the Ken Burns documentary series Baseball. The first episode or two are a bit slow, but once it gets going it’s fascinating and charming. It really opened my eyes to the history and beauty of a game which until that point I’d always found kind of boring.

Because baseball is an odd historical (and wonderful) mix of a gentlemen’s and a scoundrel’s game. A play like this is deceitful. But it’s also intelligent. It can be admired for its trickery, or its craftiness — which are really two sides of the same coin.

What are these from?

My comments are consistent:

Here’s the sentence which precedes the quote you’ve cited:

I was just firing links over to my new contrarian friend. Hopefully sooner or later I’ll find some data that you can add to your amazing chart. I’m trying super duper hard to earn a citation as a contributor to your work.

Gee, it’s lucky for me that my reading comprehension is pretty good then! My post referred to 5 years, and your chart to 3. Following along yet?

The period spanning 2013-2017 were all El Nino years? That’s news to me.

Global temperature reports from NASA: 2016 , 2015, 2014

Congratulations, it’s true. The earth has been warmer before. Continue to bury your head in the sand and ignore the fact that trends which previously took millennia are now taking place in the span of decades.

A seven-year gap between major league appearances isn’t exactly common. But when it does happen, there is usually something specific to answer why—there is usually a serious injury, or decision to walk away from the game that is ultimately reversed, or some other such circumstance that forces some of that time out.…

This should do it: “I feel sick.... can you pull over?”

Ice melting throughout the Northern hemisphere. Record temperatures year after year around the world. But sure, far away from where 90% of the world’s industry is concentrated (ie, the nothern hemisphere), the growth of the antartic ice sheets is thought to be exceeding the losses. What does this disprove exactly? It…

Let’s remember some other Boston guys.

No, the phrase “climate change” is used because what is happening to the environment isn’t only “global warming”. Not that I get the impression you’re the type of person who cares to listen.

Supermax expectations for a Betamax player.

It’s a way to stay in shape in the summer while also doing something for the community. The original aim of the Drew League was pretty similar to that of what was started in Rucker Park in the early 1950s. They gave a place for local talent to play (older) high level competition while encouraging them to see athletics…

You are presuming to know what happened with the driver making a left who she braked for. Venus entered the intersection, a moment later she stopped. Then after another pause a driver turns left. Then she continues.

If your name is actually Scranton’s Banana Problem, I’m gonna put it out there that she wasn’t paying attention to you before the teat either.

Jackie Robinson. Back in the days of switchboards and rotary phones.