baseball...

"A considerable amount of commotion was stirred up during the past year over the prospect of a Multi-Lateral Force, known to the headline writers as MLF. Much of this discussion took place during the baseball season so the Chronicle may not have covered it..."
[Tom Lehrer, That Was the Year that Was]

Identifying with Tom Lehrer's implied characterization of the San Francisco Chronicle, I, too, may ignore world-shaking events now that baseball season is in full swing!