Essay: "In Defence of Baseball"

I'm not going to look up the stats, but I understand that they're pretty grim: young people aren't as interested in baseball as they are in other sports.  The reason for this is pretty straightforward - baseball is fucking boring.  I love baseball, I was raised on it, it's probably my number one team sport (although my passion is on a slow burn these days until the Blue Jays look like they have a chance of making the playoffs) but even I'm aware of it, especially early in the season, when I'm adjusting from the frantic pace of the NBA and NHL playoffs or the structured mayhem of the NFL.  I'll be sitting there, enjoying a 5-3 win in April over the Kansas City Royals, while the pitcher and the catcher are leisurely talking to each other, and I'll think to myself: man.  This game is boring.

Essay: "Being Ignorant the Hard Way"

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than he was before. He is full of murderous resentment for people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way." - Kurt Vonnegut