The business world has a way with creating phrases that sound more impressive than what they actually mean. Truthfully, all those words do is confuse me. "Thinking outside the box," "scalability," "getting your ducks in a row." Ugh. The last few days I was struggling with the phrase "facilitating conversations." I actually had to do online research to figure out what it meant. I don't write like that and I certainly don't talk like that. I was similarly confused when I received this chrome, 1987 Topps-tribute card of Clayton Kershaw from Rob, of the 1982 and 1988 set blogs. I don't exactly know what the hieroglyphics are in the background, but one confusion at a time please. Turning over the card, I read the following: "You have received a 1987 Topps Baseball Card from the 2017 Topps Baseball Hobby Continuity Program". OK. Yay for me. But a couple of things. First, I did not receive a 1987 Topps baseball ...
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