Reds vs Athletics: A Global Metaphor for Late-Stage Capitalism Played in Nine Not-So-Innocent Innings
Reds versus Athletics: A Global Bloodletting in Nine Innings By L. V. Carver, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker Oakland Coliseum – that brutalist concrete sarcophagus where optimism goes to die – hosted another skirmish last night between the Cincinnati Reds and the Oakland Athletics, two teams whose combined payroll wouldn’t cover a junior diplomat’s bar tab…