>Mike
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>>Sorry for the delay in responding. My mom had a heart attack on Thursday and I was out of town. She is fine -- amazing technology, stents. When I first got there things did not look so good. She was immediately post-op and lying on her back. With the drugs and all she did not respond to my words or my touch. She was ashen. Not to be morbid but she looked dead. All of which is my roundabout way of saying there isn't much point in bickering about petty things, is there?
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>Glad to hear your mom's fine. My mother had a minor attack last year, and she had the stents done too.
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>>Cricket vs. baseball, now that's another matter ;-). Let's return to that one when we all need an amusing time. All I will say for now is I already know why cricket batsmen wear head, forearm, thigh, hand, groin and knee protection -- because they're pussies! LOL
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>And the reason why baseball fielders wear huge mickey mouse gloves is because they couldn't catch a cold in winter, naked in a lake. |:-}

Meant as a joke and taken as such. But some of them are a pleasure to watch. They would have made the same catches with Ty Cobb's glove. Meaning, like 90 years ago. Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals can be counted on to snatch a few near home runs over the fence every year.