It is the pundit’s predicament, the writer’s dilemma.
Which of America’s preeminent observers to quote/ paraphrase in situations such as the University of Louisville football program is currently mired?
Is there a path for this team’s immediate reinvention, a way to find some comfort in the most disturbing Louisville pigskin campaign in eons?
Or, like one of the cowpokes in the new Coen Brothers’ classic “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” do you pull out the six shooter and save the steed his misery?
On the one hand, there’s Yogi Berra, master wordsmith, a man of poignant observation.