On Thursday, the Chicago White Sox played and defeated the New York Yankees in a cornfield, and aside from the gloriousness of the Tim Anderson walk-off and that it was an incredible baseball game in general, there was a metric ton of schmaltz. It was an exercise in weaponized nostalgia from a sport that guilds its history in gold and makes it the ideal for which we should all strive.
This is not a bad thing for a sport to do. Sport, especially spectator sport, is about passion and there is nothing that drives passion more than nostalgia.