For instance, the road trip that effectively started my baseball writing career was eight straight losses over ten days in four cities. Initially, my plans for visiting Pittsburgh and Baltimore involved going to five games: three in Pittsburgh and two in Baltimore. As fate would have it, my flight got moved, and I had the silly idea to go to the finale and then race like a madman to the airport.

If we discussed the effects of literally difficult to endure baseball last time, today we will talk about vibes and other fun anecdotes to wash the taste of collective failure out of our mouths.

Inexplicably, the Dodgers were off on Labor Day. I took a red eye from San Francisco that had me arrive in Pittsburgh by way of Minneapolis around noon. When I first visited Pittsburgh in 2021, I came on

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