cat : football :: snake : baseball ?
[ by Charles Cameron — the zoo unleashed here on the fields of football and baseball, a DoubleQuote illustrating that comparison can be invidious ]
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Let’s start with a cat on the field (football), tweeted by Timothy Burke
Burke comments:
Kevin Harlan’s Westwood One radio call of the cat on the field is, as you might expect, an all-time great call. How much of a pro is Harlan? He worked a sponsor read into it.
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Okay, I’ll cap that with a snake on the field (baseball):
cat : football :: snake : baseball?
But that’s ridiculous. Comparisons are invidious, QED.
