Baseball is the last of your concerns. Until you read the following lines. This sport has undoubtedly reached you through roundabouts. Do you remember the movie “Rain Man”? As soon as Raymond, alias Dustin Hoffman, is disturbed, he recites in a loop: “Who plays at first base. Who ? But then who plays on first base? Who. But what is his name? “
Reference to a sketch, built on the misunderstanding and the absurd, comedians Abbot and Costello having fun with a who (who) on first base and a what (which player) on second base. What to laugh about in stunts.
Conversely, you can also die of boredom trying to follow a baseball game. Let’s go over the rules of this sport not as complex as one might imagine. But the repeated spectacle of a pitcher defying a drummer for a good two hours can get boring when you’re not born on the other side of the Atlantic.
How then to be interested in the finals of the MLB (Major League Baseball), pinnacle of the season when one is not a fan of the bat? By approaching these “World Series” between the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves as a… series, precisely. The final explanation contains a lot of ingredients capable of maintaining the suspense until the end of the seven episodes.
It’s a duel between a good guy and a bad guy. Even a plague victim. A club with dirty hands and a foul reputation. That a whole country – with the exception of three states (necessarily Texas, neighboring Louisiana and Delaware) – dreams of losing, while the betting takers consider him favorite for a second title after the disputed one of 2017.
Because the Houston Astros are the most hated team in the league, if not of all sports in the world. Why so much hatred? In 2019 an investigation brought to light a “theft of signals”. Using a camera that relayed signals from the opposing receiver to his pitcher, the Astros knew the types of shots they were going to get. They would warn their hitter by hitting a… trash can.
Once the fraud was unmasked, the tide turned. It no longer smelled good for the Astros sanctioned by the League, booed in all stages since the spectators were able to come back to spit their bile and… throw trash cans on the ground! It’s Houston against the rest of the world …
Last night the series, which was at 1-1, moved to Atlanta. You would like to know in what atmosphere? We thought baseball wasn’t your thing!
