Baseball

Our Ugly Ruling Class

Featured image Few things so clearly reveal the innermost ugliness and presumptuousness of our ruling class clustered in and around Washington DC (where eight of the ten highest-income counties in the nation now cluster) than the recent Wall Street Journal news account of a “scandal” in DC-area little league baseball. It seems politically powerful people, especially elite lawyers, rigged the local little league process for creating a level playing field among teams »

Baseball Is Better Than Politics

Featured image No doubt sports fans in many cities believe that their teams are jinxed or cursed. But Minnesota fans have had a special, objective basis for feeling put upon: our Twins had lost a world-record-in-any-sport 18 consecutive postseason games. It is a unique distinction–they had to be good enough to often make the postseason, but not good enough, year after year, to win a game. If the chance of winning a »