Pebble Hunting

The Best Baseball Questions on Yahoo! Answers

by Sam Miller

This weekend, dozens of people with baseball-related questions went to Yahoo! Answers to get answers from yahoos. Get it? I switched the words. What I'm saying is Yahoo! Answers, everybody. The best. Especially the best for baseball questions, which, in nearly all cases, could be answered quickly by one of the many websites that track and record every pitch ever thrown, or else are entirely unanswerable. Just the very, very best.

Rather than leave these poor people without answers to their questions, I'd like to answer a few of this weekend's questions. Only the most important ones, obviously. Let's go answer some nutballs' questions!

Question:

My answer:
In Baja California, due south of Torreon, is the tiny settlement named for General Francisco Marguia. I scooted my car off the main road and prepared to walk, but before I did I took a long look around at the nothingness. Who would come all the way out here to steal my car? But who would see it if they did? I got back into the driver’s seat, pulled my Honda Fit around behind a copse, and left it hidden from sun and bandits by the thick pinyon trunks. I loaded up with water and began to walk.

After 90 minutes, I walked across a rocky garden to knock on the first door I had come to. A shriveled abuelita answered, and I held up the photo I had brought with me.

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