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Holtzman's Folly. The save was made up by a columnist for chrissakes. It measures nothing and places undue importance on later innings and how a bullpen is constructed. Put in your best pitcher in the highest leverage situations (Showalter!).

RBI try to measure individual performance in a team based stat. wRC+ is a better way to do this.

Pitcher wins also don't tell the whole story and make starting pitchers out to be more important to a team win than they really are

Batting average does not tell the whole story

"If I should open my mouth to cry out, no sound would come forth. Or if I should stretch my arms toward one of the figures that occasionally wanders along the path nearby, that would have no effect because I am invisible. "

Ramon feels invisible on his ship. Broods about port. Finally is offered a drink at the end of the story.

A child, Nicho, lives with his aunt and soon an oriental man who moves in via some sort of eminent domain. Nicho befriends Luz, an albino. Nicho finds the stash of drugs, sells some, gets Senor Ong in trouble. Senor Ha moves in and takes Ong's place.

Atlájala is a being that has inhabited animals and a great many men. The first women enters the valley it lives in and he angles to keep her there.

June's fiance, Van, leaves the apartment during a nasty snowstorm in New York. She redecorates the apartment and spills his correspondence letters on the floor. She hastily picks those up. Van never returns.

"...I make love those days, all day long!"
"Really? You mean all day?" She was thoughtful.

A missionary leaves his mission of natives after the native leader demands his daughter be the pastor's wife.

Racky is a molester of sorts. Moves to Cuba.

Jacinta smokes some weed, kills a man and rapes his wife. "He has lost his mother."

You eat the scorpion, you're ready to go to town. Then your son will call you a liar.

Cold blooded, as the husband leaves on the train from his cheating wife and the ship they rode in on.

The professor is kidnapped, has his tongue removed and is made to be a jester to a band of desert gypsies. These stories are crazy and right up my alley.

"Lazar will turn you into a bird." he is also a man with no legs or arms whom Amar has kicked in the head.

"It would not to do to seem too distrustful. He would be embroiled immediately in a quarrel which could end badly for him. "