Apollo Creed 3, Rocky 1

As we move to the part of the season where only Chip is obsessing over playoff placement (“Braves fans are all big Twins fans tonight!” No, really, Chip, they aren’t, even as they would prefer a Minnesota win; fandom connotes a lot more than a preference for which team wins a particular game. Even worse, Chip has been known to use this phrase in May) my thoughts begin to turn to obscure academic articles. I found one: Sinister right-handedness provides Canadian-born Major League Baseball players with an offensive advantage: A further test of the hockey influence on batting hypothesis. With a title like that, you know the authors have privileged obscurity over style, so I’m bound to be interested.

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