Six NLCS and two World Series games later, there’s a National League team playing baseball on my television again. Everybody involved in making it disappear as long as it did is still a snake, but baseball is baseball, and I’m an American — easy to distract with flickering high-definition images of painted faces and soaring home runs.
Obviously the credit for settling this dispute should go to Sandy Alderson. Is there anything this man can’t do?


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