Tonight is Game 7 of the
NLCS between the St. Louis Cardinals and the San Francisco Giants. Winner takes
all—all being a trip to MLB’s greatest prize, the World Series. Neither of
these teams are strangers to postseason play: the Cardinals won the World Series
last year and the Giants the year before that. It’s the Rally Squirrel versus
the Rally Monkey. The Midwest versus the West Coast. A violet state versus a
blue state (don’t worry if this political reference makes no sense).
One team’s season will
end tonight. The losing team will be banished for five months, unable to call
itself the champion, until the quest starts anew in 2013, when the season
begins in April. There is nothing more exciting in sports than an elimination game.
Every aspect of the game is exaggerated. Nothing goes unnoticed. Every detail
matters. Hyperbole abounds.
First pitch is slated
for some time after 7 PM central time.
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| (Via Forbes.com)
Fittingly, the third and final presidential debate is tonight
between incumbent Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney in Boca Raton,
Florida. Although winner doesn’t immediately take all, tonight’s debate winner
may have the inside track for the White House in November. Speaking of
hyperbole, I expect this debate to reach unheard levels of grandiose
partisanship.
Who scheduled these
events, by the way? Clearly someone who knew the Marlins weren’t making the
NLCS.
The debate begins at 8
PM central time on every imaginable station and platform—except Fox, right? I
mean, Fox has on obligation to show the baseball game, doesn’t it? I don’t even
like baseball that much, but it’s Game 7. Why am I getting worried?
(Checks local Fox
station schedule…)
Well, according to my
programming guide, I will be watching the debate instead of baseball tonight.
If you have an interest in the baseball game, I wish you the best luck in your
viewing. Maybe you have more choices than me; maybe you have satellite instead
of cable. I think it will be a station by station choice, so may the odds be
ever in your favor (is this the younger generation’s “May the force be with
you”? And, yes, I’m not afraid to admit that I read the Hunger Games.
I like books.)
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What if you want to
watch the baseball game and can't? Is it a sign that the world is finally ending?
Being forced to watch a presidential debate instead of a Game 7 is cruel and
unusual punishment, right? If you can't watch the game on television, will you
listen to it on the radio? Or is listening to the radio worse than watching the presidential debate? I mean, you'd actually have to listen and visualize.
Anyway, no matter what
you choose or are forced to watch, Monday night promises to be full of drama. Enjoy.
(I may watch Monday Night Football and cheer for my fantasy
football team instead.)
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