Let’s turn to baseball. The greatest sin is to blow a game in the
bottom of the ninth on the road. Leading 5-4, the Mets scored 5 in the top of
the 9th to lead 10-4. With
only one out, the Nats came back with 7, ending the game with a 3-run homer
from Suzuki, a no-doubter, for the biggest walkoff since the team moved from Montreal in 2005.
Back in 1961, the “new” Senators had spotted the White
Sox 3 in the top of the 9th, and came back with 4, including a homer
by Willie Tasby with two outs in the ninth on a two-strike pitch (box).
Then, later that June, right after my high school graduation,
I watched them (at a party in Maryland) score 5 in the top of the 9th,
to lead 12-5, only to give up 8 runs with two outs and a man on first and lose 13-12 (box) and go on to be swept in a four game series. They would finish the season 61-100.
Another aside: Starbucks has stopped carrying print
newspapers, because people take them, and they don’t want to enforce a
no-shoplifting policy on newspapers.
Even worse for the legacy newspaper.
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