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The Accidental Oracle: How Detroit’s Kerry Carpenter Became Baseball’s Answer to Global Economic Forecasting
ByDaveslocker 11 September 2025

**The Accidental Oracle: How a Detroit Slugger Became the World’s Most Unlikely Economic Prophet** In the grand theater of global absurdity, where central bankers perform interpretive dance with interest rates and politicians discover new frontiers in fiscal self-immolation, humanity has found its latest unlikely soothsayer in the form of Kerry Carpenter—a 26-year-old baseball player who…

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Red Sox Standings as Global Omen: How a .500 Ballclub Explains Brexit, Bitcoin, and the End of Hope
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

**From Fenway to the Fall of Empires: How the Red Sox Standings Mirror a World in Decline** While the world watches grainy TikToks of Ukrainian drone strikes and central bankers debate whether to crash the housing market slowly or all at once, the Boston Red Sox have spent the spring perfecting the art of hovering…

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MLB Wild Card Chaos: How America’s Baseball Lottery Became the World’s Most Honest Sports Spectacle
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

**The Wild, Wild Card: How America’s October Coin Toss Became the World’s Favorite Spectacle** While European football fans debate the philosophical implications of VAR and cricket enthusiasts in the Commonwealth calculate run rates with the intensity of hedge fund managers, America has once again reminded the global sporting community that nothing quite matches the exquisite…

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San Francisco Giants: How a Baseball Team Became the World’s Most Expensive Anxiety Blanket
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

**Oracle Park, USA –** Somewhere between the garlic-fries fog and the seagull air-raids of San Francisco’s waterfront, the San Francisco Giants are quietly staging a baseball season that matters far beyond the quaint provincialism of American sports pages. While the rest of the planet sorts out grain shortages, proxy wars, and the slow-motion demolition of…

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From Philly to Planet Earth: How Ryan Howard Became the Global Metric for Glorious Collapse
ByDaveslocker 10 September 2025

Ryan Howard, the Sultan of Swing-and-Miss, Still Haunts Ballparks from Caracas to Canberra By Dave’s Locker International Desk There’s a moment—usually in the bottom of the 7th, when the beer lines shorten and the scoreboard goes politely berserk—when every ballpark outside the United States seems to summon the ghost of Ryan Howard. In Seoul, the…

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Padres vs. Planet Earth: How a San Diego Baseball Game Became the World’s Most Expensive Metaphor
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

Padres Game: America’s Pastime as Global Gladiator Spectacle By Our Correspondent Who’s Seen Cricket Riots and Calcio Fistfights PETCO Park, San Diego—While the rest of the planet debates grain-export corridors and which despot has the shiniest nuclear toys, 42,067 sunburned souls here have arranged themselves into a neat capitalist mandala to watch grown men in…

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Rockies vs Dodgers: How a Mid-Season MLB Game Quietly Explains the Collapse of Civilization
ByDaveslocker 9 September 2025

Rockies vs Dodgers: A Ballgame for the End of the World By Diego “Flight Risk” Morales, Senior Correspondent, Dave’s Locker DENVER—Somewhere between the thin air that makes baseballs fly like drunken drones and the smog that makes sunsets look like a Dario Argento film, the Colorado Rockies hosted the Los Angeles Dodgers last night. On…

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Alec Bohm’s Tripping Point: How One MLB Stumble Became a Global Parable of Human Error
ByDaveslocker 8 September 2025

The Ballad of Alec Bohm, or How a Routine Error Became a Global Metaphor by Our Man in the Dugout Trenches From the vantage point of a crumbling press box in Philadelphia—where the hot dogs taste of existential dread and the Wi-Fi wheezes like a dying air conditioner—Alec Bohm’s three-step stumble around third base last…

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Cincinnati Reds Lose Again, World Somehow Keeps Spinning: A Global Dispatch from the Church of Perpetual Rebuilding
ByDaveslocker 8 September 2025

The Cincinnati Reds, a franchise that began life as the Red Stockings when Otto von Bismarck was still young and optimistic, played a baseball game last night. This apparently parochial event in the American Midwest was streamed from Great American Ball Park to 183 countries—one more than currently recognizes Taiwan—proving once again that late capitalism…

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Luke Farrell: The Accidental Diplomat Pitching Across Three Continents
ByDaveslocker 7 September 2025

The Curious Case of Luke Farrell: One Pitcher, Three Continents, and the Quiet Farce of Global Baseball Diplomacy By A. Grigor, International Desk, Dave’s Locker It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a 93-mph cutter must be in search of a passport stamp. Meet Luke Farrell—American-born, Ivy-schooled, and presently…

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blue jays vs reds
ByDaveslocker 3 September 2025

Blue Jays vs Reds: A Global Tragedy Painted in Feathers and Box Scores By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent, still wearing yesterday’s cynicism GENEVA — While the world’s finance ministers argue over digital-tax commas in Swiss conference suites, and while a forgotten war reruns its greatest hits on another continent, two North American bird-themed baseball clubs have…

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