"The best team always wins—just look at the Scoreboard." This old tried-and-true axiom is what separates sports from the rest of society. There are no blurry or gray areas when a championship is on the line. Inevitably, the contest produces the victorious and the vanquished. However, that is where the distinction between the "real" world and the "sports" world ends, because the rest of the time, their universes collide and overlap in a sea of irreverent ills. Society, seemingly, has lost all respect for itself and its institutions. Sports, meanwhile, has done the same, especially major league baseball.
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