What if there were no hypothetical questions?

he more money involved, the better the playing environment provided. Yet even in the great major league ball fields, ground rule intricacies abound with short or crooked fences, retractable roofs, exposed beams, and speakers.

From thse cathedrals whose spires rise high into the hypothetical, we lesser mortals are inspired to form our own local ground rules.

Just as "there's no such thing as a dumb question," so also is it the hypothetical ground rule situations of our home town's field of dreams that we joyfully welcome.

It's the exception to the rule that proves the rule, they say. It's the hypothetical ground rules that make the park, I say. If you eliminate the hypothetical, you've diminshed the game.

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