Pirates vs Orioles: A Global Parable Written in Pine Tar and Despair By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large, filing from a bar in Lisbon that still thinks the Cold War is on Let us begin with the obvious: when a club named after 17th-century maritime criminals meets a club named after a small orange songbird, the universe…
The Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins, two baseball franchises whose combined payrolls could bail out a modestly failing European bank, faced off last night in a contest that the global community greeted with the same polite indifference normally reserved for a UN subcommittee on agricultural tariffs. From the Maracanã to the Marina Bay Sands,…
The Yankees play a meaningless mid-week tilt against whichever AL Central also-ran is currently in town. Meanwhile, the world keeps burning—literally in some latitudes—but 46,000 ticket-holders still shuffle through the turnstiles because, well, what else is there to do while waiting for the apocalypse? From the upper deck of Yankee Stadium you can almost see…
