Close to Home by John McPherson for January 06, 2025

Doesn’t take the Astros to steal that sign!

Don’t worry — it’s a sacrifice bundt.

If you’re thinking that you could go for some cake about now, then yeah.

Yes, I’ll be right back with the coffee.

That he should aim for the lower outside corner of the strike zone?

The plate is made of steel.

Wrong sport. He’s asking for a hole in one.

The (cake) batter is crowding the plate.

That he is hungry?

Bleeb looks bigger and more “human” than I’ve ever seen him. And he’s not waving. Hope it’s not an “imposter.”

Wait, isn’t this “opposites day”?

Must mean he’s hungry. Why else?

I thought that stealing signs was illegal now?

“You mean he is going to form a 1930’s German-American Nazi organization with the slogans “America First” and “Make America Great?”

And it’s fresh from the hot stove league!

Some people think they know baseball, but they really don’t know the difference between a bunt and a bundt cake…

OH, THAT IS SO SILLY! Best laugh of the day, and for some time before.

Those gloves are hilarious!

Steve: “ The base on balls will be a cakewalk?”

Mr. McPherson’s numbering system is not random.

I guess this is the RuTiN formation, not the ‘cruisin for a bruise’ Inning.

Who shall intercede and provide a relief pitcher of iced green tea?

I have some of my own errors to correct.

“That it sure would go well with some fruit and whipped topping? But that’s hardly relevant right now…”

And the sign for “swing away” would be a pound cake?

(Error corrected: I passed chemistry , not typing.)

Now, about that bundt situation at 3rd, not home. The following literature portion is BASED upon a true event, not a TV story about amnesia:

There once was a rabbi named Eric

Who decided he should be called Dan

He OK’d the bundt

but not the swine runt

Then eastward toward Kitchener he ran

…that if he get’s a triple, he can get his cake an’ eat it too!

It won’t be a bunt. Freddie Freeman is up to bat.

Looking for just desserts.

I’m sure it’s nothing, probably did have time to finish lunch before he got here.

Bleeb, wrong place for the short-stop.

The bundt cake is baseless.

Less than subtle sign.

The third base coach is obviously Dusty Baker.

With those wrists it will be barely a lob !

Yeah…steal it

Yeah, it’s time for rum cake.

“It’s a cake with a hole in it!”