While the rest of the planet juggles runaway inflation, sovereign debt crises, and the slow-motion implosion of the post-war order, a pocket of the Caribbean diaspora in Queens and a sun-bleached corner of South Florida spent three late-autumn evenings locked in a duel that, on the surface, concerns nothing more than who gets to spray…
The world’s clocks now tick in anticipation of a peculiarly North-American ritual—the Major League Baseball playoff schedule—yet the tremor it sends through global supply chains, ad-industry spreadsheets, and crypto-betting syndicates is almost touching in its disproportionate grandeur. From container ships bobbing outside Los Angeles to algorithmic traders in Singapore, an entire invisible economy braces for…
The American Pastime’s Autumnal Hunger Games: A Globe-Trotting Dispatch on the MLB Playoff Picture By Our Man Who Once Saw a Cricket Match End Because Everyone Got Bored Let us begin with the obvious: most of the planet does not, technically speaking, give a solitary damn about the Major League Baseball postseason. In Lagos traffic,…
The AL Wild Card standings, that most American of scoreboards, are currently being scrutinized by baseball fans from Tokyo to Tegucigalpa with the intensity usually reserved for cryptocurrency charts or North Korean missile trajectories. Because let’s face it—when your own local economy is circling the drain like a poorly thrown slider, watching millionaires chase a…
Astros-Blue Jays: A Cosmic Game of Avian Revenge Played Out on a Dying Planet By Dave’s Foreign Bureau, filed from a press box that still smells faintly of 2017 champagne and 2020 disinfectant If you squint hard enough from the international space station, Houston’s Minute Maid Park and Toronto’s Rogers Centre look like two Lite-Brite…
**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…
