Red Birds and Blue Bears: How a Midwestern Squabble Echoes Through the Collapsing Coliseum of Global Order By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the Atlantic Somewhere between the missile tests in the Sea of Japan and the latest cryptocurrency implosion in a server farm the size of Liechtenstein, two baseball clubs from…
The Nationals vs. Braves Tilt as Seen from the Cheap Seats of the World By Our Man in the Upper Deck, Somewhere Over the Atlantic PARIS—If you squint hard enough from the Pont Neuf on a humid August evening, you can almost convince yourself the Seine is really the Potomac, swollen with lobbyist runoff instead…
Marlins vs Rangers: A Global Trade War in Cleats By Our Correspondent Who Once Covered a UN Summit and Found More Diplomacy in the Dugout MIAMI—While the rest of the planet negotiates over microchips, grain corridors, and which septuagenarian autocrat will next threaten nuclear Armageddon, two American ball clubs convened at LoanDepot Park last night…
From the banks of the Ganges to the docks of Rotterdam, humanity is currently transfixed by a burning question: which overpaid men in tight polyester will be granted the privilege of playing one extra October baseball game before their ligaments explode like cheap fireworks. Yes, the MLB Wild Card standings—those gloriously American hieroglyphics of W-L…
The MLB Standings: A Global Scoreboard for American Soft Power and Existential Dread Somewhere between a Japanese semiconductor shortage and a French pension riot, the American pastime has quietly re-branded itself as the planet’s longest-running reality show. The standings that scroll across smartphones from Seoul to São Paulo are no longer just arithmetic for the…
Houston, We Have a Border Problem: How a Lone-Star Dust-Up Became the World’s Most Expensive Therapy Session By Our Man in the Cheap Seats The Astros and the Rangers—two baseball teams whose names sound like rival oil cartels—are busy trying to murder each other with fastballs and walk-off home runs in a little American regional…
