[182/365] why I'm a few minutes late writing this

[cosmolinguist]

had two beers and it's way past my bedtime so of course that's when then D bought Out Of The Park 24.

So I've been explaining so many things. For all I feel like I've told D a billion things about baseball,I've taken a pretty light touch to his education, mostly sticking to narratively-interesting things as they come up. So...there's a lot of gaps.

Like "what does 'bullpen' mean" and "what's a pull hitter" and he just mentioned that someone is "Rule 5 draft-eligible" and I'm like oh god.

Like I've heard those words in that order on sports podcasts/radio for years, and yet do I know wtf that really means no I do not.

I'm having so much fun and all we've done is look at tables full of dense information. We haven't even gotten near to "playing" a "game" yet.

I love this.

I hope D is okay. He also had two beers and was way tireder than I was to start with.

Comments

[otter]

Cheers!

[silveradept]

Oh, there's a manager sim that you'll have a great time with, I think. Especially if they're going all the way into the metrics wickets.

Sports ball

[jesse_the_k]

Is so full of mysteries and jargon and peak learners (6-10 year olds) spend years absorbing this stuff.