Out of Sync

I have this picture of the All-Star Game, with demigods hitting walk-off homeruns in extra innings.  How black-and-white of me.  MLB.com ran a story today with this headline so appropriate for 2019:  Win $250K in the HR Derby Bracket Challenge.  Over and under, anyone?

Once upon a time, baseball ran from gambling the way cartoon elephants did from a mouse, only it was very real for the eight members of the White Sox banned for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.  Oh, what Buck Weaver or Shoeless Joe Jackson could’ve done with that kind of money.  Truly, it’s a curse to be born too early.