I watch baseball because I want to be entertained. For three hours, I want to forget about the big picture to focus on something inconsequential, but I want to magnify the meaningless past the point of reason. I get really fired up about one-pitch groundouts because it beats getting really fired up about politics. Every once and again, though, something happens in baseball that brings me back to the big picture. Well, the big picture is that the sun is slowly running out of fuel, the uni...