Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
From John Thorn
Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?
For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.
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