You’re a professional athlete. A baseball player, let’s say. You’re stuck on a 19-hour flight to Tokyo for business after a brisk protest and exhibition game. The doctors tell you to stay awake through the whole flight so the jetlag isn’t as bad. How do you entertain yourself for nearly a full day?

(Someone’s going out the airlock if this happens, Papelbon)

Bring DVDs with. Play poker. Lots of poker. Hell, order a three-foot-long portable poker table with the team logo on it and plop that sucker down right in the middle of the plane. Dear God, anything to avoid having to open a book.
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