Pomeranz: The best of October: politics and baseball
Walking into Yorkside on Monday night, wet and weary, a senior saddened by midterm mania, I found on the TV a bit of my lost soul: the World Series. Like millions of my fellow Americans, I love the World Series. Everyone loves the World Series as much as everyone loves anything in this increasingly fragmented country.
As you know, then, the heavens opened in the sixth inning, just after the Rays tied the game. (Formerly known as the Devil Rays, Tampa Bay, having rid itself of diabolical influence, is now part maritime predator and part sunbeam.) The tarp came out to keep out the...
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By L
1:36p.m. on November 3, 2008
Having a candidate call a world series makes sense. It would be more substantive than most of their stump talks.
Requiring presidential candidates to do play by play (or even color) for a world series is a good idea. We would be able to see how excitable and erratic each is and whether they want to "spread the breaks around". However, there are those who would clearly think that calling a Super Bowl would give us better insight into how muscular each is on defense.