Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 30, 2022

Baseball is the finest team sport ever invented by man, in my humble but usually accurate opinion. The World Series, currently playing out between Philadelphia and Houston, underscores that posit. As a sports announcer, I often get asked questions about great players in the game, as well as in other various sports. Recently, someone asked me who I thought was the greatest all-around baseball player of all time. “Oh, that’s easy,” I replied. “It has to be Willie Mays.” [Note: the late Hall of Fame announcer Ernie Harwell also held this position, so I knew I was in good company.]

My questioner persisted, however: “What do you think his batting average would be if he were playing today?”

“Oh, probably .200, maybe .220,” I responded.

“That low?” he exclaimed. “Do you think pitching has improved that much in fifty years?”

“No,” I told him. “But you have to remember he’s ninety years old.”

So it has been ocular white blood cells I’ve been seeing, not some sort of floaties or spots? Oh, that’s a relief.

Where can one find pizzly bears anyway?

Unlike unhealthy, infertile hybrids like ligers, “pizzly bears” (also known as nanulaks) seem to typically be a pretty stable and even mix of the two parent species. In fact, there’s genetic evidence that some long-established populations of bears originated through these hybridizations.

Yes, the Wiley bears are really great! As polar ice continues to melt, Polar bears will probably be forced futher south, and into romantic liaisons with Grizzlies.

I lobbied for the other way around, but was out voted by the labradoodles. ~ Gloria Golar Bear, still taking donations because I need to be liberated stuff

Take care, may eerily patient karma explorer Cloe “Call Me What You Want Just Keep The Crickets Coming” Chameleon be with you, and gesundheit.

Hardly thousands of sunflower flowerets, hundreds I’d say. Blue-sky effect isn’t so much white blood cells as fluid without any cell in front of them in the capillary in front of the retina.

I thought those things I see when staring at any background were called “floaties?”

Nice that all those thousands of little flowers become all those yummy seeds.

Not real funny and seems racist to me. Denotes ignorance on the part of the old chinese man.

Pizzly bears are one result of climate change (there haven’t been that many yet.)

Chamelions: Nature’s living LSD trip.

Considering polars and grizzlys live in “different neighborhoods”,this hybrid is a name without a body.

Try wolves and sled dogs,which I’ve heard get together;if only for “lack of variety”.

I’d only heard it called a Polar Grizzly before.