Sesame Street has an educational approach to things that are similar and different by using their various characters to describe the concept to young children. Children begin to notice differences and as we become adults it is part of our ingrained observational abilities. Some things are quite different and some eerily similar – in baseball, for example, since this is a baseball site.
A few weeks ago I wrote about Clay Buchholz and the Red Sox needing a divorce. Sometimes a parting of the ways is beneficial for both parties and if the angst of a Buchholz start became a distant memory, maybe Buchholz could find his lost talent elsewhere.