Article posted: 2/11/2013 5:30 AM

Focus turns to baseball, bringing Carlin to mind

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Among late comedian George Carlin's legendary bits was a dissection of the differences between baseball and football.

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The transition from winter toward spring and football toward baseball is an annual reminder of the late George Carlin's humorously insightful comparison of the two sports. Nobody articulated more insightfully the differences between the men’s men and the boys of summer, between body counts and pitch counts, between football players playing injured and baseball players not always playing hurt.