ATLANTA — Watching a blockbuster action movie on your phone. Driving a tightly tuned sports car with a donut spare tire. Listening to the Vienna Philharmonic on cheap headphones. Watching what has become of baseball and its starting pitching.
The thrill is gone.
We are kings of convenience. The Braves beat the Astros in World Series Game 3 Friday night, 2–0, in what might have been an all-time classic, what with a no-hitter in place through seven innings on a dank, Dickensian kind of evening. Instead, two runs scored. Eleven pitchers were used. No history was written.