270: Frailty's Pickle
Dear Hank & John
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I'm in a Pickle, I'd Like to Get Out of a Pickle
When a baseball player is in a pickle, it means he's between two problems. We do not really know where the phrase in aPickle comes from. Shakespeare in the tempest wrote that some one was in a pickled but it was probably more that they were drunk. But i like to translate this poem for you. It's a poem for our times, john, time is uncertain. Chance is fickle. Man is brittle. Time is tickle. Chaunce is fickle,. Man is brickle. Frailties, pickle, poundret mickle, seasoning lickle. Great goes like this, and it's not goingto make any sense, so
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