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Sports have felt trivial thanks to the pandemic, but they’re hardly blameless

COMMENTARY

Winning, we sports types have long known, is the solution to everything. It’s getting there that’s the problem.

With sports viewership through the floor in plenty of corners, the brazen nature of some of the paths increasingly chased feeling harder to ignore, maybe we need to reassess the idea there’s nothing that could turn us away from the games en masse.

I made the point, when the best homegrown Red Sox of the last 60 years was winning the World Series for the Dodgers, that what impulse sent Mookie Betts west was not unique to Boston.