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Insights VI: Acceptance -- Of Homilies, Hamilies, and the Hall

We engage in ritual because we engaged in ritual because we engage in ritual.

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Honesty is such a lonely word if you're Mark McGwire (UPDATED for Lance Armstrong)

Is honesty truly the best policy? Hell no.

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Insights IV: Growth, or Players Forever Arriving

Not everyone can be precocious.

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Insights III: Birth and baseball, with Mike Trout and ... Claudell Washington?

It's good to be born young, better to stay young, and better still to be born younger.

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Insights II: Baseball and death, a metaphorical journey

The athlete dies not once, but many times ... Well, except for those that actually die in the literal sense.

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Insights Introduction: Baseball and Matters of Life, Death, and Pumpernickel

We're learning the big secrets and applying them to baseball.

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Insights I: Friendship and Baseball, Guest-Starring Derek Jeter, the Beatles, and the Cast of "Oklahoma!"

Why can't we all just get along? Maybe the question is irrelevant.