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American dads, moms and kids watch a softball game in a Middle East compound. BOOM! go the terrorist bombs, and dozens are killed. Local soldiers stop a suspicious car at a checkpoint. BRAAAAAT! spits the evildoers' gunfire, and the soldiers are dead. Back at the ballfield death scene, an ambulance drives off, carrying the wounded. KA-BLAM! A suicide bomber was inside. From the roof of a building a mile or so away, the masterminds of these atrocities record it all on video, for bragging rights later...
...time to focus. I?m glad I?ve got no more readings scheduled in the next little while; it feels odd recounting Game Seven yet again, when I know the team is, even then, out on some American ballfield, losing. Blowing a lead in the seventh. Giving up a walk-off in the ninth...
...bishop, a rook) that have slid off the board. Although Architect Helmut Jahn has designed only the basic shapes, sizes and placement of his buildings, it seems clear from the plans and model that it would be an unfamiliar species of urban place, awesome and a little spooky. The ballfield-size spaces between the triplet building clusters and the central megatower look awkwardly large, making the radical change of scale even more unsettling...
...relationship with his co-captain, Salsgiver says they are great friends. But he also acknowledges their pole-opposite styles and attitudes on the ballfield...
...LeLacheur Park is, clearly, lovely: a sweet little brick 4,700-seater placed as softly as a Texas Leaguer at a riverbend that spent a hundred years waiting for a ballfield. I head for Will Call as Luci, with her sixth sense about shopping, heads for Souvenirs, which is taking its signal to close from the National Anthem, now being sung. The young man locking the door lets her in, and I join the others after picking up our tickets. Caroline, of course, wants everything in sight. I veto a small bat, which I imagine her using on her infant...