That something was the first public commitment by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens to close hospitals that have become a kind of home, albeit a highly questionable one, to some 3,000 people with learning disabilities or autism whose behaviour is deemed "challenging".
This time those three pitchers, along with Alexi Ogando and the sensational rookie closer Neftali Feliz, combined for three and a third scoreless innings, allowing only one hit, and a questionable one at that.
And then it was back to the parlor for a game of billiards, another glass of wine and a splintering rendition of "I've Got to Be Me," which is an honorable sentiment for an actor but possibly a questionable one for an aspirant to the Players Club.
The author's decision to describe the process is a questionable one — a book's great unknown can leave the strongest impression on a reader — but he executes as precisely as the surgeons who perform the unwinding.
The decision to promote the latter by dressing up in medieval costumes was a questionable one, but at least it distanced them from the crooners with which they were usually grouped.
It's always a questionable one – how long should you hold the ball before it's dead?
As the realization dawned that this clearly merited pardon had been denied by a president who was himself the hopeful beneficiary of a questionable one, I lost it.
As with the Bechdel test (Run Lola Run is a very feminist film that fails, and Showgirls is a questionable one that passes), our test has its limits.
Partly it's a consequence of the idea – a questionable one – that great art, by redeeming us from "the noise of time", trumps everything, and therefore excuses shabby behaviour.
The move's a questionable one from the outside, looking in.
