As I type this, the Reds are losing late, which has happened about half the time they’ve played so far. Seasons like this feel as though they lose much more often. Bullpen and blowup and hip impingement and Tommy John … and Tommy John: These Aprils make it difficult to sit still in the stadium and let the game unfold.
We could, of course, not be sitting in the ballpark at all.
Sporting events — and baseball games especially, given the way the national pastime twines around our national history — mean that everything is OK. They mean we have the time, safety, and resources to care about men and women undertaking playground games on an luxury suite scale.