1.   Just as his attitude to other characters in the play is implicit in his turn-allocation, so too is his interest in certain conversational topics.

2.   It is yet another example of how baseball will always dwarf our other major team sports as a conversational topic.

3.   Sports, according to Schaap, are a safe conversational topic because there is no single right response.

4.   The basic conversational topic, during breaks from learning advanced techniques of violence, is sex.