Fortune cookies

I know this is a baseball blog, and everything. But since the season is about to start, and it'll be baseball 24/7 for then on till the end of the season. I thought I'd do a blog about something off topic, and well I was watching a show and it taught me how fortune cookies were made. Turns out the paper is put inside an un-folded fortune cookie then it goes on this conveyor belt type thing and mechanical fingers/claws fold it. This totally bummed me out because I have always had this image of 50 tiny little midgets on a tiny little desk folding fortune cookies with their tiny little hands one by one. Then they'd take their tiny little breaks and drink their tiny little drinks. Then go back to their tiny little jobs. Then they clock out and cash their tiny little paychecks, so they can pay off their tiny little cars. But no it turns out a fucking machine does it. Speaking of midgets though did you know the first midget was named Rosco. He was a corn farmer in Nebraska! Then one day he went out into the corn fields, and he got lost in the corn field, and never found his way back out. Ever since then midgets aren't allowed in corn fields. I love midgets they're kind of like an endangered species. We need to make sure they have food, and water.

Anyways. That's baseball for you.

Homeruns: Why are they called homeruns?

For many years now hitting the ball (the baseball) in fair territory over the fence is called a homerun. But why? Who came up with it, and why? I guess I get the run. You at least get a run out of it, maybe more. But the thing that has always bothered me is what if you are the away team? How would it be called a homerun? You are not at home, so it can't be a homerun. It can be an awayrun, but not a homerun. Has no one picked up on this? I mean it's ridiculous and a glaring error in this great game of baseball.

For instance I was watching a baseball game with my friends last season, and I said "Woo awayrun" and they looked at me like I was the stupid one, I mean really? I am the stupid one, but you can't even figure out who is the home, and away team. Don't play ballsnap with me I am not a block of spaghetti. I am not stupid enough to not know that awayrun sounds stupid. But homerun sounds even stupider! We need to come up with a different name for it all together where it is not subject to home, and away. I suggest quader. Then you'd have a single, double, triple, and quader. What is wrong with that? NOTHING! People are just set in old ways. Homerun makes no sense at all when they away team hits it. I for now on am calling balls (baseballs) that go over the fence in fair territory quaders, and I hope you join me.


That's baseball for you.