DR. WALLACE: I'm a high school student and a guy who loves sports. My high school teammates and I have been in a huge discussion lately. Some of us feel that if the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani were to win the World Series two years in a row, that would be more impressive than if Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles win the Super Bowl two years in a row.

But there are several guys who disagree with us and feel that if the Eagles win two Super Bowls in a row, that's more impressive than winning two World Series in a row since football is a harder sport to play than baseball. I know you were a sports coach back in your day, so which one do you think would be more impressive if it happens? — We Love Sports, via email

WE LOVE SPORTS: If either of these excellent pro sports franchises were able to win a second consecutive championship, it would be most impressive. Your debate is an excellent one but hard to settle definitively.

Both of these professional sports present different challenges. I'd say that professional football is definitely a much more physical game, and major injuries can change the course of a pro football team's season at any moment. Professional baseball, although it is not as strenuous as professional football, does have an extremely long and grinding regular season. MLB teams play 162 games a year in the regular season whereas NFL teams play only 17. Although pro football is more likely to see players lost to injuries, major league baseball teams also suffer inevitable injuries during the very long season. This is especially true of pitchers. Based upon repeated stress on their arms throwing a baseball, there are many shoulder, elbow, ligament and forearm injuries that interrupt or even end the seasons of star pitchers.

In the end, it's a tossup. The great thing is, we'll get to watch all the playoff games and see if one or both of these excellent franchises can add another trophy to their historic prior achievements.

WHY DON'T WE JUST GET ASKED DIRECTLY MORE OFTEN?

DR. WALLACE: My high school girlfriends and I were talking the other day about how guys in our grade at our high school very rarely ask a girl out directly on a date.

We all agreed that we would be much more inclined to go out on a date with someone who would just ask us politely and directly, even if they weren't the typical type of guy we would normally strive to go out with.

We've all talked it over with each other, and we agree that 85% of the guys we think we would like to date turn out to have personalities that don't mesh with ours, and a lot of guys we probably overlook would have a much better chance of connecting with us.

We even talked about asking guys out ourselves directly, but for some reason we still kind of like the tradition of a guy asking a girl out on a date. How can we put ourselves in a position to be directly asked out more often? — We'd Like to Be Asked, via email

WE'D LIKE TO BE ASKED: Before I answer your question directly, to all teenage boys out there who may read this column or become aware of it, consider this your public service announcement! Girls enjoy being asked out on a date directly, so summon up the courage to do so whenever the opportunity arises!

Now, to answer your specific question, have one of the girls in your group identify a guy she's interested in dating, and then one of you tell this guy that if he'll ask your friend directly to go out on a date, she's almost sure to say "yes" to going out with him. Once this actually happens successfully, be sure you can all witness him asking for the date directly.

From there, you can tell this "story" to other friends and potential dating partners in casual conversation, and be sure to mention how your friend responded positively to being asked directly and that you agree with her philosophy. This will encourage anyone interested in asking you out to approach you, and even those who are just friends will likely repeat your story to others, thereby increasing your chances of someone interesting walking up to you out of the blue and asking you out on a date!

Dr. Robert Wallace welcomes questions from readers. Although he is unable to reply to all of them individually, he will answer as many as possible in this column. Email him at [email protected]. To find out more about Dr. Robert Wallace and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

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