{"id":1505,"date":"2009-05-11T17:08:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2009-05-11T17:08:25","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T23:08:25","slug":"four-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/four-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"Four balls?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pete says that baseball is
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A game without discernable rules or purpose; I deduced that teams compete to collect points, but those are awarded arbitrarily, so the formal objective does nothing to add any sense to the proceedings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I just happened to digitize The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart<\/em><\/strong> last week. Here’s Newhart’s take on baseball from about 50 years ago:<\/p>\n

[audio:http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball.mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n

While I’m uploading audio, here’s a selection from another curiosity I came across: string quartet arrangements of music from Rozen Maiden<\/em><\/strong>. Here’s a sample:<\/p>\n

[audio:http:\/\/tancos.net\/audio\/Otome wa Tenshin Ranman.mp3]<\/center><\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

I have jury duty this week, so I’ll probably be spending the days at the courthouse and the evenings at the office. See you all next week.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: I was spared jury duty<\/a>. (Actually, The plaintiff in the case I was in the pool for had suffered a broken ankle and knee injuries. It was no surprise that I wasn’t empaneled, given my own broken ankle and knee problems.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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