[IowaHawk]

The worst thing about baseball? Those misty-eyed, pencil-neck apologists - George Will, Thomas Boswell, Steven Jay Gould, Doris Kerns Goodwin - wannabe faculty geeks who see in it a grand metaphor for western civilization.

Ahh, yes, baseball; a mystic frolicking pastorale, a Apollonian paean redolent of the symbolic symbolism endemic in the elysian sine qua non of youthful sybarritic yada yada yada.

Gag. Baseball is narcolepsy on grass, a 19th-century schoolyard game craftily designed to minimize any distracting excitement. I hear that hoop-rolling and mumblety peg were big in 1894, too.

[BluesDuke]

Gag. Baseball is narcolepsy on grass, a 19th-century schoolyard game craftily designed to minimize any distracting excitement. I hear that hoop-rolling and mumblety peg were big in 1894, too.

OK, Congressman Gephardt, stop being a wisenheimer!