Ask A Genius 1558: Baseball, Rambo Scars, and the Strange Performance of Masculinity

In this candid and eccentric exchange, Rick Rosner chats with Scott Douglas Jacobsen about fair-weather fandom, the statistical chaos of baseball, and the misunderstood genius of Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. The conversation drifts—quite literally—from bullpen blunders to body scars, as Rosner recounts crafting his Conan-inspired look and accidentally one-upping Rambo in realism. Between anecdotes of fake blood and real keloids, he muses on aging, hearing loss, and the quiet hum of tinnitus that punctuates his later years with reluctant introspection.