2022-10-29 The “Cosmic” World Series of 2022:

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"Phillies Relievers Shut Down Astros, Justifying Bold Managing ...."

Some of you may be wondering "why," of all things, I suddenly decided to do a show on "baseball" tonight. 

Here's part of the answer, from Ted Anthony writing for The Associated Press--

"Baseball is America's game: the America that was stitching itself together in the first half of the 20th Century [good one Ted ...) and becoming a 'national' mass culture ...  In retrospect, though, at a time when 'being American' was more of a 'thing' than ever before, it ended up being an excercise in candy-coating baseball with myth [yes, we also love myths ...] -- Abner Doubleday, Cooperstown, 1839 -- to prove it was 'an American game.'

One hundred two years later, the first game of the World Series opened last night between two "archetypal teams" (we also love archetypes ...) -- the "Philadelphia Phillies," representing the hopes of our Founding City, the American Origin; and the "Houston Astros," created to literally represent the American Future: "Houston" ... "NASA" ... and "the astronauts who took this Nation to the Moon" ... and are about to Again.

Two "national archetypes" -- representing the fundamental conflicts now swirling around all of us in 2022 ... between "how and why America began ..." and "where and how America is going ...."

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Richard C. Hoagland

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