Tanuki’s probably still licking his balls, and now Usazawa will be clutching his balls. Is that why they call it a ball game? I always thought that was because of the spherical, inflated things they’re using for playing, but what do I know? Little of ball games, for example.

Anyway, shouldn’t Yogi say that knuckleball comedy isn’t dead? Well, back in the thirties, when a genre of movie comedies acquired its name, the knuckleball was considered a type of screwball, which back then covered any breaking ball that broke in any other direction than a curveball or slider.

I considered having a short time-travel sidequest here, where Yogi and select members of both teams travel back in time to 1930ies Hollywood and try to alter language use from “screwball comedy” to “knuckleball comedy” before it can become entrenched. Possibly having to overcome the Three Stooges on the way, which had a near-monopoly on the term “knucklehead” back then.

But then I felt that that would have been a slight bit of an unnecessary tangent, and it’s easier to just let Yogi make no sense here. He’s Yogi, after all, so he’s got that privilege that everyone is going to excuse his not making sense as some sort of deeply philosophical “Yogism”. And, anyway, peoples’ experiences with romance differ…for some it’s more like a screwball (current definition), for some it’s more like a knuckleball.

Also: ouch!

More on Monday.