A pamphlet of feline opinion · est. mmxxv
Pete, the resident feline critic
The Pete Gazette
The Baseball Desk Reviewed for kids & the grown-ups who shop for them Reviewed from the windowsill
Lead Review · From: Swimline
Water Sworn Off, Floating Throne Changes Everything
Our critic, a lifelong enemy of the pool, leaps aboard a giant inflatable baseball glove and concedes that the human has, for once, stumbled into something approaching genius.

It appears my Human has acquired a monument to their species' baffling obsession with throwing small spheres. This "Swimline Giant Inflatable Baseball Glove" is, in essence, a grotesquely oversized, air-filled effigy of a leather hand, designed to float upon the forbidden waters of the backyard pool. Its primary function, I deduce, is to provide a sunning p…

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Image of Swimline Giant Inflatable Baseball Glove Pool Float , Brown, 62"/50"/16"
Fig. 1 — the subject
Pete's Verdict
★★★★★
The human has achieved something of genius.
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