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| The Perez boys---Juan... |
We just keep going until one of these teams wins six games.
We play Games 8 and 9 back in San Francisco.
And then back to KC.
The TV folks will be happy: this year's World Series is gaining strength in the ratings. Extra games would be just what the doctor ordered.
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| ...and Salvador--have had some very good moments in the 2014 World Series. |
Since Repubs are bigger baseball fans than Dems, this would redress the voting imbalance and tip the scales in several key races across the country. (For example, Kansas.)
It doesn't quite work in the structure of American elections, but what the heck...let's go for it anyway: it's time for a partisan chant to end all partisan chant:
"Four more games! Four more games!!"
Seriously: it has been a most engaging and unpredictably electric World Series thus far. As we write this, the Royals--still angling for a variation on the "immaculate conception post-season" (here's to you, FQRU!!)--are in the process of forcing a seventh game.
Let's get greedy, shall we?
[FOLLOWUP: After the Royals' 10-0 win in Game 6, we realized what has made this World Series so unusually interesting. It's not because the games have been close--in fact, it's been the exact opposite. (There has only been one game out of the six where the scoring differential has been less than five runs--which has got to be closing in on a record for the post-season.)
So--with all this random, back-and-forth salvoing; with the "one day it's one thing and the next it's another" -ing; with the opportunity for each side and its fans to revel and gloat in a gaudy display of extremity--what we have is a World Series that is an exact replica of the current American sociopolitical situation. The polarized results in these games match the polarized nature of the nation.
Which means that, at last, baseball is, at least in this fractious fortnight, the National Pastime once again.]
