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Six Runs in Baltimore: How a Modest Orioles Score Echoes from Frankfurt Trading Floors to Kyiv Air-Raid Channels
ByDaveslocker 6 September 2025

Baltimore, Maryland – Somewhere between the crab-cake stands and the rusted-out steel cranes that once propped up an empire, the Orioles scored six runs last night. Six. A modest tally by the steroid-addled standards of modern baseball, yet in the grand bazaar of global affairs it landed with the discreet thud of a diplomatic cable…

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International | Sports

Red Sox vs Diamondbacks: How a Boston-Arizona Snooze Fest Became a Global Trade War of Inherited Trauma and Crypto Catchers
ByDaveslocker 6 September 2025

Fenway Park, 37,000 seats of brick, beer, and inherited heartbreak, will tonight welcome the Arizona Diamondbacks—a franchise whose entire existence is younger than most of the rust on Lansdowne Street. To the foreign eye this looks like a quaint regional pageant: two American ball clubs meeting for the first time since 2019, when the Red…

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