It doesn’t matter where they pre-heat the oven, as long as they come home to grill the meat… or some metaphor that might apply here with sentient hot dog people.
No one said they paid for a new bat+ball. As Mrs. Olsen said, it could have been an old, used ones. You could definitely get an old bat for $1.05 USD at a garage sale, albeit an odd price.
Only in the house of lards.