Baseball is So Great

Best of The Blog #2: A look back in the wake of the 2011 World Series: I go to Espn.com/mlb today and the opening story is entitled “Two Sides to the Story” and features a picture of an elated Yadier Molina in front of a somber looking Michael Young.  Yes, the dichotomy of winning and losing is key to any sport but, it’s not even close to what makes baseball so great.  What we witnessed this year for basically the last two months has been a story unfolding for the ages. It’s impossible to include all of the storylines and think about every different facet that went into the dog pile at the end of Game 7.  Baseball is about more than the Two Sides of the traditional sports story; it’s about the pitching matchups, the intentional walk, the unintentional intentional walk, the unlikely heroes, and the collapses by other teams over the course of a month that make it all possible. The two sides to the story don’t even begin to explain the fight that th...