Max Scherzer, the man with two different colored eyes and a fastball that could perforate a UN resolution, has—through no fault of his own—become a walking metaphor for the twenty-first century: dazzling, expensive, and held together by a patchwork of insurance clauses. While the average citizen of planet Earth worries about the price of diesel,…
The Tragicomic Global Odyssey of Trent Grisham, Baseball’s Wandering Metaphor By Dave’s International Desk of Disenchantment In the grand bazaar of global sport, where Premier League oligarchs flip super-clubs like condos and Chinese streaming giants bankroll esports teenagers who’ve never seen daylight, Trent Grisham stands as a quaint anachronism: a 27-year-old center-fielder from Fort Worth…
From the cracked sidewalks of Miami’s Liberty City to the manicured lawns of Tampa Bay’s corporate coliseum, Calijah Kancey has become the latest avatar of America’s most reliable export: the improbably fast human missile. At 6-foot-1 and 281 pounds, he is what happens when someone weaponizes the phrase “low center of gravity,” then ships it…
