The tip off, is back in - setting in motion, a chain reaction

Touch of the hat... "an ever-so-subtle salute"

Point of the bat... "didn't your mother tell you it wasn't polite to point?"...with certain exceptions...unless you were the Sultan of Swat, the Great Bambio, simply "The Babe" - who was blithely pointing out, where the ball would go...out of the ball park, so if you wanted in on the action, you could park your butt, accordingly...

Something in common... when courtesy was considered common, which has given weigh, to simply acting and talking curt, on and off the field of play...

Where east meets west... the best and the best, which is why it took extra innings, more than once...to extend such courtesies, to one another...

A natural outcome... of such a World Series, in which the old ways of subtlety, the wonders of nuance...eventuated in a new chain of finishing schools (since so many of us need it) - "LA Finesse" 😉

(weight, I'm not finished with you...did you know, in the national pastime that if you pass the plate without touching it, you could get "tagged out" at home? In any case, come back here for a post on the "passing of the plate" and other religious refs to American futbol)