My dad and I discuss the finer points of baseball

  • Dad: Remember the seven ways to get to first base?
  • Me: Of course. You put on Dire Straits and get in the back seat...
  • Dad: Ha ha you know what I mean.
  • Me: OK fine. Base hit, walk, error, hit by a pitch, dropped third strike, ball lodges in umpire's mask—
  • Dad: What?
  • Me: Seriously, I think I read that somewhere.
  • Dad: How could that possibly happen?
  • Me: Maybe he's wearing one of those clay Mummenschanz masks.
  • Dad: You know, I bet that's actually covered in the official rules.
  • Me: Of course it is. But if a situation like that comes up in a playoff game, you better have someone on the field who's seen it before.
  • Dad: Yeah, otherwise the ump would have to stop the game and get out his rulebook and look up "Mummenschanz mask, play interference by."
  • Me: It's in the "Mime and Pageantry" section.

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    love about baseball. The pace...game leaves time for conversation, for jokes, for...
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    Conversations like this make me wary...who dislike baseball.
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