1.   Four weeks ago, Robinson was telling people that Boone was a baseball genius.

2.   One is a baseball genius.

3.   The baseball genius we called The Mahatma in the New York of my youth sought to build a powerhouse franchise.

4.   The baseball geniuses could also emulate the spontaneous creativity of soccer, which has no overt coaching and no timeouts, at least not until Rupert dumbs it down.

5.   Tony LaRussa is perceived as a baseball genius, so he gets imitated.