From Broad Street to the Brink: How the Phillies Export American Dread in High-Definition
The Philadelphia Phillies, for those who still believe baseball is more than a taxpayer-funded real-estate hustle, have quietly become a small but telling barometer of late-stage global capitalism. While the world’s attention toggles between the next missile test and the latest crypto-meltdown, the Phillies—those red-pinstriped avatars of American pastoral nostalgia—are busy exporting existential dread disguised…
