NASA's mission to Pluto and TCU Baseball both ended up in cold, dark places this week. Is there possibly a connection?
As I write this, most of the country has gone to bed, and most of them don't even know that this week the New Horizons spacecraft abruptly arrived at Pluto after a long and magnificent journey, nor that the TCU Horned Frogs left the College World Series abruptly after a long and glorious season. Pluto is a dwarf planet, demoted from planetary status via an arbitrary size requirement conjured up by an academy of Scientists. TCU is a giant-hearted team, demoted from the CWS by the arbitrary fortunes of an academy of Commodores.