I'm really getting tired of your stupid posts. This crap you keep spewing over the boards about "math" and "empiricism" completely elides the crucial difference between man-runs and girly-runs. In fact, your blatant refusal to affirm our not-at-all-homophobic distaste for men who won't swing their dicks, erm, bats, at every pitch comes dangerously close to implying that our masculinity should be put in chains by that frigid mistress known as reason. To claim that SLG does not have unique offensive value is to argue that the authentic display of traditional male traits of raw power and athleticism are not the primary purpose of baseball games. To challenge the relevance of our celebration of the positively bestial elements of athleticism is to propose that baseball should be desexualized, and thus it is to imply that baseball should be transformed into a more "fabulous" and, if you will, queered-up activity resembling dance more than sport. One suspects that your favorite baseball phrase is "going the other way." We should have known, all those years ago, that when we started letting baseball players wear long hair and stop wearing high socks it became inevitable that one day our whole hidden homoerotic culture would be unmasked and feminized...thank GOD for people like Steinbrenner who still try to keep up appearances That is one of the funniest sports-message board diatribes I have ever read!! :lol: