How a Cardinals Depth Chart Moves Global Markets, Shifts Currencies, and Explains Everything Wrong with Late-Stage Capitalism (While Still Being About Baseball)
The Cardinals Depth Chart as Geopolitical Barometer: How a St. Louis Spreadsheet Explains the Collapse of the Liberal Order By the time the latest Cardinals depth chart pinged across Bloomberg terminals in Singapore, oil futures in Rotterdam had already ticked up eleven cents. Coincidence? Perhaps. But in the grand, absurdist theatre of 2024, where a…