Red Sox, Blue Planet: How a Faded Baseball Dynasty Became a Global Metaphor for Decline By Our Correspondent, still recovering from a $14 Fenway frankfurter BOSTON—From the banks of the Charles to the neon canyons of Tokyo, the phrase “Red Sox” once conjured a very American cocktail of curses, catharsis, and cash. Today, in boardrooms…
From the Fens to the Front Pages: Why a Red Sox Score Echoes Louder Than Bombs By Our Man in the Cheap Seats, Somewhere Over the North Atlantic BOSTON—While the rest of the planet debated grain-export corridors, submarine pipelines, and which autocrat has the shiniest table, a modest digit flickered across scoreboards from Lansdowne Street…
**From Fenway to the Fall of Empires: How the Red Sox Standings Mirror a World in Decline** While the world watches grainy TikToks of Ukrainian drone strikes and central bankers debate whether to crash the housing market slowly or all at once, the Boston Red Sox have spent the spring perfecting the art of hovering…
