Tigers vs Red Sox: How a Ballgame Became the World’s Most Expensive Distraction
On paper, the phrase “Tigers vs Red Sox” sounds like a nature documentary that ends with David Attenborough narrating the disembowelling of a Fenway usher. In practice it is merely another installment of Major League Baseball’s seasonal pageant, a rivalry now beamed to 183 countries by satellite feeds so powerful they can probably give low-orbit…