Rangers vs. Mets: How a Routine Ballgame Became the World’s Most Honest Mirror
Global dispatch, Arlington, Texas – Somewhere between the tenth replay of a seagull dive-bombing a nacho tray and the thirty-eighth mention of “post-season drought,” the Rangers and Mets reminded planet Earth that, yes, the United States still exports baseball the way it exports Marvel films and questionable foreign policy. From a café terrace in Lisbon…