At least one reader to click on the button embedded here and take the following quiz — at least one such reader will probably die within the next calendar year. Unfortunate, that.
On a positive note: almost no mental strain whatsoever will be required of that same reader when he’s tasked with identifying the least important moments of his life in recent memory.
Both uncles and also people who just look like uncles are frequently overheard uttering with some pleasure that, in this life, only two things are certain: death and taxes.
Of course, this is not entirely the case. One can be certain, for example, that my colleague Dayn Perry has hepatitis. One can also be certain, for example, that Perry has another kind of hepatitis, too — different than the first kind you were originally thinking about.
Concerned reader Phillip Lancaster notes another point to which we might ascribe some considerable degree of certainty — namely, that predominantly bare-chested Boston first baseman Mike Napoli is Italian. We know, in part, because he was abandoned shortly after his birth, along with his twin brother; suckled as an infant by a she-wolf; and raised by a shepherd and his wife. We know, in other part, because of the image provided by Lancaster and embedded here for the Enjoyment of the Readership.
A few days ago, Nationals prospect Anthony Rendon made news when he got called up to replace an ailing Ryan Zimmerman. More recently, the Tigers decided to recall reliever Bruce Rondon to the majors. This may lead to some confusion. Don’t be a boob at your next dinner party, you need to know the difference between these two prospects. Consider the following quiz a service to you, fair NotGraphs reader.
It’s time to play the game sensation that’s sweeping the nation.
Below is an audio clip that is either an audio clip of an avant-garde work by late American composer John Cage or the result of an attempt by the author to record, this afternoon, a conversation with Rockies closer Rafael Betancourt regarding the latter’s tendency (documented last August by Jeff Sullivan) to work almost exclusively on the outside corner of the strike zone to left-handed batters — except, instead of that conversation, is only silence for reasons likely owing to the author’s incompetence.
Below the audio clip is a quiz of some consequence, which the reader is invited to take.
Hey, I bet you’re tired of Spring Training highlights, projection systems, talk of position battles and depth charts, and probably just baseball in general. I mean, that’s why you’re at this baseball website right now, instead of working, chillin’ with family or friends, or pursuing a more productive hobby.
In that case, won’t you participate in this distracting internet-quiz, which asks you to identify whether a given photo depicts belovéd NotGraphs editor Carson Cistulli or former pre-teen heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Thank you.
Bill Baer of Crashburn Alley has dedicated at least a portion of his evening to reminding us, the tired surfers of the internet, that Carlos Ruiz one time conspicuously mastered his opponent (in this case, Atlanta left-hander Eric O’Flaherty) in May of 2012.
What the present author has considered — and asks below in the form of a rather late quiz — is how much Carlos Ruiz actually cares about what just happened in the GIF embedded here.
The author, because he is on nodding terms with danger, has recently re-read T.S. Eliot’s four-part uberpoem — or four-poem book, if you’d prefer — Four Quartets.
Now the author, because he is combination litterateur and issue of Seventeen magazine from 1996, presents the following quiz, in which he invites the reader to discern the difference between the section titles from Eliot’s poem and long-dead base-ballists.
In the not very distant past (i.e. 45 minutes ago) my colleague David Temple challenged the readership to answer certain questions about Delwyn and Delmon Young — and to establish the differences lying therein.
While Temple was mainly concerned (like Isaiah Berlin’s proverbial hedgehog) with depth — that is, many qualities between just two Youngs, Delmon and Delwyn — here we concern ourselves (like the fox) with width, and the breadth (or, four, which is two more) of Youngdom that Western Civilization has produced.
Heart-pounding quiz, after the jump!
