For a Houston Rocket or Washington Wizard, the launching of the NBA’s 74th season paled in hometown significance to their baseball counterparts’ pursuit of a World Series championship … the oddity of it being the first Fall Classic ever in which the home team never won a game likely added to the predictable imbalance in coverage.
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BTW, am I the only one who finds it odd that such an improbable and unprecedented turn of events in the World Series would occur on the 100th anniversary of the Black Sox Scandal?