“For the most part, the league considers the players to be fungible products,” an official from the National Basketball Players Association said. “But LeBron is one of the three or four players the league would definitely hate to lose. If a team lost him or Kobe [Bryant] to Europe, it would lose its mind. It would be devastating.”

Fungible. If I had to draw on my vast experience as a kid growing up, I would say ‘fungible’ related to whether or not a ball could be hit with a bat, as in hitting fungoes while playing Fly’s-up. So I guess your qoute is discussing whether we could hit a sufficiently high fly ball with Kobe or LeBron.

My guess is that you would have to have a large bat with a wide sweet spot, and your fungoe hitter would have to have good enough bat speed with said bat to get the miscreants high enough to make it a good game.

Of course there’s the matter of catching them. I think I’d just get out of the way and let them hit the ground.

I think the Giants might be good at this game.