The success or failure of any one painting might rest on something as elementary as the choice between oil paint and acrylic paint or a brush and a palette knife.
Without unduly calling into question an operating definition of what "punk" is (The Wheel of Punk™ lets us rest on something as lazy as "the exact opposite of The Eagles"), it's important to realize that half the fun of this thing is how arbitrary it is.
Pettitte pitched on diminished rest, something he has done effectively in the past.
They used him once on one day's rest, something he never did again until Friday.
He's also pitching on six days rest, something that has benefited him in 2013.
Cone was trying to win on four days' rest, something he has done once since June 9 last year (in nine attempts).
Schilling will pitch on three days' rest, something he has never done in his career, and if the Yankees come back to win their fourth consecutive championship, Brenly's decision will hang on him, like John McNamara's choice not to replace Boston first baseman Bill Buckner with a defensive specialist in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
Journalist and author Norman Cousins, for example, argued that the correct answer should be six, because the seven-sided solid has to rest on something, and the face that it is resting on is not exposed.
But he's also pitching on just three days rest, something he has never done.
The question asked of the student: "How many exposed faces would the resulting solid have?" The solid has to rest on something.
But in order to nap effectively, your head must be able to rest on something, he said, like a desk or the back of a chair.
