Well, not really. But this juxtaposition at first base had me scrambling for my phone and wishing for my telephoto lens.
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Photo Memory of the Week
Video of the Week: “It was an ambush!”
Leeloo whups a bunch of armed and nasty aliens, unarmed and all by her own self.
The quote is at timestamp 1:43.
Poetry of the Week
On Tender Hooks
- by Brian BilstonLet me cut to the cheese:
every time you open your mouth,
I’m on tender hooks.You charge at the English language
like a bowl in a china shop.
Please nip it in the butt.On the spurt of the moment,
the phrases tumble out.
It’s time you gave up the goat.Curve your enthusiasm.
Don’t give them free range.
The chickens will come home to roast.Now you are in high dungeon.
You think me a damp squid:
on your phrases I shouldn’t impose.But they spread like wildflowers
in a doggy-dog world,
and your spear of influence grows.Posted: 2025 Apr 20
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It only took ten minutes for me to figure out your reference. After having consulted my very knowledgeable, sports-minded husband, who scrutinized the photos only to find nothing notable, the field was open for me to catch your wordplay. Thanks for making me feel (momentarily) clever at a ballgame!
Laurna – Sorry to be obscure! I’ve never known anyone who takes 666 seriously as the Number of the Beast, but I did once have it as my security-card number. I thought that was hysterical (I mean, would you give the Devil a security pass?), but the issuer had no idea what I was talking about.
All that’s missing is for the first-baseman to be named “Abel.”
Jim T
Jim – That would have been wonderful!