[Nate505]

In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.

In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!

[Nate505]

For the 20 of you that don't know, I did not come up with that. It is a classic George Carline routine.

[BluesDuke]

Carlin may have been reading A. Bartlett Giamatti when he dreamed up his routine: Baseball teaches us that, long as you travel and far as you roam, the purpose is to get back home, back to where the others are. (From "Men of Baseball, Lend An Ear," published in The New York Times during the 1981 baseball strike.)