Red Sox vs Athletics: Late Capitalism in Nine Innings, Now With Extra Wildfire Smoke
The Red Sox–Athletics tilt has always been a quaint sideshow of American provincialism—two teams named after socks and accountants, respectively, playing a children’s pastime while the planet burns. Yet on Wednesday night in Oakland, as the smoke from Canada’s record-breaking wildfires drifted south like an apologetic surrender note, the game acquired the faint whiff of…