As both (a) science and (b) residents of the American South are able to confirm, there’s more than one way, reader, to skin a cat.

So it is, then, that, with this revelation, we discover yet another way in which skinning a cat and enjoying baseball are similar — for there are numerous ways of doing the latter, as well.

Some of those — like watching a game while enjoying one of America’s great public spaces or listening to a game while playing the crap out of one’s PlayStation 3 — have been documented in these very pages. But some is the operative word here, for the list of ways to enjoy Our Fair Sport is close to, if not entirely, inexhaustible.

Allow me, then, to submit for the reader’s consideration another way in which I’ve recently enjoyed baseball — namely, by watching MLB.TV while also listening to comedian Marc Maron’s WTF podcast.

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Remember VCRs? Of course you do. So does our favorite umpire, Joe West.

You’ll be happy to know that the NotGraphs Investigative Reporting Investigation Team has confirmed, with help from our resident Photoshopper Ross (@syourh), that The Great Ejector has no time for Netflix; that his VCR is still going strong. Because, as Joe West said so himself, or would if I could ask him about VCRs, there are far too few things in life with an “EJECT” button on them.

Thanks, Ross. Keep up the great work around here.

First, please consider the following photographic image …

It occurs to this chronicler that there are but two possible explanations for the ballistic weapon, which is certainly large and quite possibly in charge, that you see alongside Mr. Davis. The obvious one, I suppose, is that Mr. Davis’s baseball-ing chops are so substantial, so prepossessing, so like a large gun that they are best symbolized by a large gun. The other, less obvious explanation is that the streets of Cincinnati are afflicted and in need of taking back. And so desperate are conditions that only Eric Davis and his stylish red pocket square and his Joe Piscopo gun can … take back the streets.

On another level, this is Eric Damn Davis, and any answer is the correct one.

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Brilliant.

Don’t want Derek Jeter in your life? Gone. Thanks to Jeter Filter, you can erase any mention of the Yankees shortstop from your internet world.

It does occur to me that, in the wrong hands, this might go south quickly.

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Thanks to Can’t Stop the Bleeding and my wife.