Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that baseball, often viewed as just a game, is rich with significance and depth.
George Will's quote challenges the perception that baseball trivia lacks importance, suggesting instead that every aspect of the game, even seemingly minor details, holds considerable value and contributes to the overall narrative and culture of baseball. It highlights the passion and complexity that fans and analysts find in the sport, arguing that what may appear trivial is actually an integral part of understanding and appreciating the game.
In practice
During a baseball seminar, a speaker could use this quote to emphasize the depth of statistics in understanding the game.
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
The civil forfeiture law - if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law - is an incentive for perverse behavior: Predatory government agencies get to pocket the proceeds from property they seize from Americans without even charging them with, let alone convicting them of, crimes. Criminals are treated better than this because they lose the fruits of their criminality only after being convicted.
Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?
The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of america is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.
I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.
When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.
Gowdy had a love affair with the microphone and the fans had a love affair with him. American sports fans truly lost an icon, a legend who never felt he was bigger than anyone else. He had that humility that made him special, and he made everyone feel like they were so important.
With football, you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren't playing so well, you don't have to turn those two-game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.
Women are playing [hockey] because they love it, not because theyβre trying to be a woman in a manβs game.
Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!
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