Game 1 of the ALCS was a dull, dull, dull mess. The Red Sox and Astros promised so much more. In the wee hours of Game 1 of the 2018 American League Championship Series, a baseball hit Joe West right in the collarbone , and Baseball Twitter was alive, truly alive. Because West wasn’t actually hurt, there were approximately 74,398 simultaneous jokes about Christian Vazquez living out a shared fantasy of hitting him with a baseball. Current and former players shared in the revelry. You should have been there. Oh, we all had a good laugh, and so did Country Joe, to his credit. It was the best part of the game. That long, torpid, stupid game. If the best part of a baseball game is something the umpire did, either it was a very bad baseball game, or the umpire went out to the field on the back of a capybara. In this case, it was a very bad baseball game. Let us count the ways. First, some housekeeping: I’m usually here to celebrate baseball and all of its quirks. I’m all for a langu...
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