Sages say it’s not the destination that matters but the voyage. When we get to where we’re going, we often wonder why we bothered, yet the weeks at sea were full of adventures—storms and pirates and breaching whales, not to mention the hours spent on deck leaning into the wind and brooding.
I asked sports editor Chris De Luca why. “We got crunched for space when we stopped doing special sections,” he explained.
I don’t know whether to cheer or mourn the Sun-Times‘s dropping out. I told Ginnetti I’ll miss our chats every time I called to give her the good news that she’d won again. But the BAT was created to ridicule something out of existence, and if our work is done, it’s done. Some sleepless nights lie ahead as BAT headquarters tries to figure out whether to proceed. Perhaps a long sea voyage would help sort things out.
“Detroit and Cincinnati in the World Series,” Gonzales said, cutting to the chase, “with the Big Red Machine winning.”
Hometown chauvinism has laid low many a BAT contender over the years. I expect Gonzales’s cold heart to make him a contender again next year. If there is a next year.
