Let me tell you a story. When I was in the sixth grade, I played Peewee baseball. It was my first year playing baseball (and would be my last) because I lived on a farm and couldn't get a ride into town to practice previously. I had developed skills over the years from playing in the backyard with my brother, but I had never played organized baseball before and sometimes the various rules got overwhelming.

In one game, I was sitting on the bench, watching one of our guys at bat. The pitcher and catcher were taking their time with the wind up and the return to the pitcher and being kind of inattentive because there were no men on. I knew that you could run to first after the third strike was called. I started to wonder, 'why not do it after the second strike?' This made more and more sense as I thought about it, and I eventually spoke up and said to nobody in particular "Can you steal first base?"

The coach turned to the bench and said with obvious disgust, "Who said that?" The question was so ridiculous to him that he wanted to know just who on his team was that ignorant, inexperienced, and unashamed of it.

Reading about your intent to paint a goddamn chain makes me understand how my coach felt that day. Thank you.