When we here at Yard Work found out that two of our contributing writers were starting a feud, we decided to get them together here at YW headquarters. Here, slightly edited, is part of that conversation.

Ana Maria Callejeo Guillen: So, Spartacus, what did you think about World Series 2005?
Spartacus: Well, Ana Maria, I thought it was a pretty good series, for a four-game waste of time that proves nothing except that the wrong team can win any time.
AMCG: You mean you thinks Astros should has won?
S: No, I don’t think either team should have won. In fact, it is clear that the Cardinals are still the best team in baseball this year.
AMCG: You are crazy as a kaka monster! The winning teams is the winning teams, there is no question about that. My uncle Ozzie —
S: Your uncle Ozzie did a very good job with his mediocre team, because they had excellent pitching and pretty good defense. But there is no question that Cleveland should have beaten them, and that St. Louis would have beaten Cleveland. I ran one million projections and that’s the outcome I came up with 96.4 % of the time., based on the regular season, which is really all we have to go on. The fact that two other teams got in: LUCK, pure luck. Baseball isn’t luck, sister.
AMCG: Baseball very is luck, and I am not your sister!
S: It’s an expression we have in English.
AMCG: Here is another expression you haves in English: You make me laughing! Your computers are more a joke than “La India” and more feeble besides. Real people play beisbol, they have flesh and blood just like me, even you maybes!
S: But come on, you can’t tell me that the White Sox were anything more than a 90 win team that caught some breaks at the right time.
AMCG: Yes, and I tell you more: they won 99 games, three games, four games, and four more games. Maybe your computers can add that up.
S: Oh, sure, take a cheap shot. But come on, is predicting a World Series winner based on how many Venezuelan players are on a team any better?
AMCG: The team that had more Venezolanos won the World Series. Did you see Ozzie with the flag on him shoulders at that celebration?
S: But you picked against your uncle’s team! Hey, nice job on your Kelvim Escobar prediction, by the way.
AMCG: Oh, now you have a cheap shot against me and my country. I hope you are proud of yourselv. Plus, like Brett Tomko writes, A.J. Podsednik have many times where he taked advantage of umpires of stone, how can that factor into your contempt for me?
S: I don’t have contempt for you, not at all. I think you are a good writer.
AMCG: For seriously?
S: Sure! But you’re better in “El Universal” than you are in English. I loved that piece about the Caracas / Magallanes rivalry, that was hilarious.
AMCG: Thanks you, Spartacus, that is nice. I like to read your website sometimes, but those numbers! Ay yi yi! They making me crazy sometimes. Did you ever eplay beisbol?
S: I had health problems as a child, an allergy to air actually. I wasn’t allowed outside until I was fifteen years old.
AMCG: Pobrecito!
S: But enough about me, and enough about 2005. You want to go get a drink?
AMCG: What do you think is in this so calls water bottle? Water? Jajaja, you would be wrong about that! Okay, Spartacus…vamonos!