“Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.”

—  Charles Krauthammer

2010s, 2010, The joys of losing (2010)

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