Most of these Olympic evenings, I have flipped back and forth between Detroit Tigers games and the Olympic Games. Plenty of real baseball, no need for Steve Ontiveros, or even Gus Triandos, bless him.

Very sad about that guy getting blasted on the head. I hope he is okay. That's what happens when Americans export their sport other countries. Ontiveros says, "Drill him," but the foreigner doesn't know enough about baseball to plunk him on the shirt or bonk him on the butt. The obedient warrior goes nuclear, and hits him in the head.

How many actual, experienced (= American) pitchers have hit anybody in the head in the past couple seasons? Zero, probably.

What a jackass, King, to say that they weren't "real games." Like you're not a real sportswriter because your stuff appears on the Internet?

Hi,

Just watching the Olympics Men's gymnastics Rings competition and I want an answer to this and thought you could find out:

How much can these guys bench?

I'm always amazed when I hear what NFL lineman can lift, but I bet these guys are even more amazing, pound for pound.

Cheers,

Chris

But your concept is fascinating. Also off topic:

Do you remember how we discussed the opposition between power and grace yesterday? Our problem was words. We have the words, power and grace, but these are just words that we use. Real athletes transcend both words.

Do you know that Einstein combined the words space and time? Space-Time. That is the only way to understand physics.

Power-Grace is the only way to understand the Olympics.

You're supposed to collide with him. He's not doing his job. And if he gets hurt, well some manager should have explained the rules to him. Sorry Yang Yang. And by his job I mean any organized baseball where the players are grown men. Little Leagure, sure, don't crash the catcher.

And once they hit five guys and no one's gotten ejected, you charge the fucking mound and hammer the dude. What? Are we afraid the Chinese will lodge an international incident? Fuck that. Someone's getting stomped.

I like your PowerGrace formulation! My favorite so far was old what's his name with the crazy leg scissors on the pommel horse...