Yes, folks, dinosaurs do still roam the Earth. Come Sunday night, an increasingly irrelevant Hollywood elite will gather for their annual fete to an astonishing lack of self-awareness, a.k.a. the Academy Awards. In less than two weeks, Major League Baseball will throw out the first pitch on another fun-filled season of jockstrap adjustments and dallying even longer than usual between pitches so every fielder, plus a couple of hot dog vendors, have time to shift to one side of the field. Baseball & the Oscars. Two relics of a bygone era, both fighting to avoid relegation to Nicheville U.S.A.