Here's the best bit of Kansas City sports writing on the subject of Royals winning.
The flowery prose and poetic description isn't really my bag but there has been nothing but raving about this article on social media:
The beauty of belief
Here's the moneyline . . .
JoPo: "I believe in chemistry in baseball, thought not so much in the fuzzy clubhouse nirvana way. I believe that Tuesday night’s incredible, implausible, infuriating, intoxicating and impossible game between the Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics was all about chemistry. There were violent chemical reactions happening all over the place. It was like the surface of the sun."
There's no accounting for style but more than anything this narrative about the game speaks to how white people want to imagine their lives intertwining with billionaire sports team owners and millionaire athletes . . . It's a beautiful lie but still captivating nonetheless.
Rani Jazayerli's is a better read.
ReplyDeleteJoe's ain't bad, mind you.
ReplyDeleteGood job Joe!
"...this narrative about the game speaks to how white people want to imagine their lives intertwining with billionaire sports team owners and millionaire athletes..."
ReplyDeleteno, it isn't about that at all, tkc. not even close.
JoPo is sappy and fake. But jesus christ Tony don't slit your wrists this morning it's just beisbol
ReplyDeleteJoe is definitely sappy but his passion is genuine.
ReplyDeleteOf course, nothing can be seen as genuine in this snarky, ironic and painfully hipster world we live in.
I am really surprised that TKC didn't run this headline:
ReplyDelete"Royals win meaningless Wild Card game,
head to California for meaningless division series"
941, Paco is saving that for when they are eliminated.
ReplyDeleteYou will never see such glee
Just remember fat ass taco boy. Its white people that pay for you to sit on your fat ass in your man cave at your momma's house. Why don't you dis the real problem such as say overprivileged ghetto folks that pull the race card every time somebody looks at them wrong.
ReplyDeleteWho won?
ReplyDeleteYou're a jerk.
ReplyDeleteI am 84 years old and I remember when my kid brother was in the hospital with cancer. That boy loved Babe Ruth and sent him a letter and ask him to visit him in the hospital because he had cancer. We lived in Chicago and when the Yankees came to play the White Soxes, I could not believe my eyes but the Bambino himself came to see my little brother. He told him he would hit one out of the park just for him. That night Babe struck out three times and my kid brother died the next day. Sometimes folks, shit just happens.
ReplyDeleteplease stick to what you know. 4th grade boob posts.
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