It really is no choice at all. It is a choice between the lesser of two evils, two really undesirable choices, and we all lose no matter who wins.
No, I’m not talking about the presidential election; I’m talking, if you’re a Pirates fan, about the World Series, which begins tonight.
On one side is the hated, evil Cubs, a team viewed by many Pirates fans as “arrogant” and “overrated” and one that represents all that is wrong about Major League Baseball’s economic system.
The Cubs also feature a smug, unlikable manager, according to many Pirates fans who will never forgive Joe Maddon for claiming that he thought Jung-Ho Kang had plantar fasciitis when he had his knee torn up by a hard slide into second by Cubs utilityman Chris Coghlan.