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" So teh1 baseball. This is what&amp;#039;s left to us now, in the season of the NFL&amp;#039;s unintended consequences, where trying to force defensive players to tackle low, in the hope of minimizing brain injuries, has led defensive players to dive at their foes&amp;#039; knees instead, resulting in a rash2 of torn ligaments. I know what you&amp;#039;re thinking: Hockey. If I&amp;#039;m right, and you&amp;#039;re thinking &amp;quot;hockey,&amp;quot; you&amp;#039;re missing the larger point, which is that we&amp;#039;re talking about for-real major-league sports, defined as such by their tendency not to shut themselves down for entire seasons every few years, and their ability to sustain watching interest among a critical mass3 of people who refuse to believe that the mere existence of a single-payer government-run health-care system and poutine4 means that a nation&amp;#039;s national sport is for-real major-league. Or you could be thinking basketball. I&amp;#039;m trying hard not to think basketball, because it&amp;#039;s still pre-season and I&amp;#039;m a Cleveland Cavaliers fan, and pre-season is when Cavs fans say, &amp;quot;If Andrew Bynum&amp;#039;s healthy, we could win 50,&amp;quot; which is akin to saying &amp;quot;If these fire ants crawling my cock keep cool, this ought to be a super orgasm.&amp;quot; Me, I&amp;#039;m thinking World Series. I like both teams. I like both teams&amp;#039; fans. I like both cities, though it took Boston a long time to grow on me. I wish Joe Buck didn&amp;#039;t look so much like Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential, but he&amp;#039;s only on-camera once or twice a game. Then there&amp;#039;s Tim McCarver, who&amp;#039;s starting to sound a lot like early-dementia Reagan. But the guy caught Bob Gibson5 in his prime, and hit 13 triples in 1966, and he just turned 72. If Tim McCarver is ruining your World Series pleasure, you should be watching hockey. As for actual pseudo-analysis, the BoSox have a deeper lineup, home-field advantage, and an overwhelming edge in ugly. You can smell those beards on the TV. I think St. Louis needs to win all 3 of its home games \u2014 where the long balls come less often and David Ortiz will attempt to play the field. Feels like a 6- or 7-game series, with the Red Sox coming out on top. -- 1) Not a typo. It&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;thing&amp;quot; the youngsters came up with. 2) By &amp;quot;rash,&amp;quot; I mean the Browns&amp;#039; QB Brian Hoyer and some other guys. 3) If ESPN doesn&amp;#039;t own it, it&amp;#039;s not a real major-league sport. 4) Ask Chris Jones. 5) Bob Gibson is my answer to &amp;quot;If you had any pitcher in history available to start Game 7, who would it be?&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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