It has been six years since baseball pretended to be a world game, an ambition not shared by the world. Yet here we are again daring to ignore the World Baseball Classic, inaccurate in two of three terms.
Oh, it is baseball alright, instantly recognizable by the universal tug and scratch of the players, but unless the world is a couple of islands in the Caribbean and a couple of towns in Japan, well, it is as dubious as identifying our own Series as World.
Who knows? Do they hit behind the runner in Australia, or in front? I mean, being in the southern hemisphere and all. I'm thinking that when they go around the horn, it is, like a flushed toilet, counter clockwise. Do the Boys of Summer become the Boys of Winter? All of this is just fine with me. I don't care if anyone in Panama can pick Mike Trout out of a lineup, or out of a hat, a Panama, of course. Or even if they can hit a Dutch fastball, which they apparently cannot.
We send the Dream Team to the Barcelona Olympics and what happens? Giannis Antetokounmpo becomes the starting center in the NBA All-Star Game, guys with diacritical glyphs over their names are MVPs and the next wonder child is coming from France.
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