Crime Cases Tend To Be Fascinating Until

You Know One Little Way In Which Baseball Changes Us? We Don't Even Think Twice About Japanese Names Anymore. You Know What I Mean?

There Are, I Believe, Many More False Confessions To Murders Than True Confessions.

All Societies Have These Cases. There Are Many, Many Crime Cases That Remain Famous From The Times Of The Romans. The Bible Is Full Of Crime Stories. You Can Almost Flip To A Page. Joseph Being Sold Into Slavery By His Brothers Is A Crime Story. The Bible Is Full Of Crime Stories.

Do We Need To Have 280 Brands Of Breakfast Cereal? No, Probably Not. But We Have Them For A Reason - Because Some People Like Them. It's The Same With Baseball Statistics.

Famous Crime Stories Almost Always Lead To The Passing Of New Laws. There's A Great Many Intersections Between This Unseemly Tabloid Phenomena And Serious Social Issues And We Never Get To That Intersection Because Serious People Don't Like To Talk About That Unattractive Stuff.