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  • Baseball as Power: Emotion, Ritual, and State Control
    November 6, 2025

    Baseball as Power: Emotion, Ritual, and State Control

    Baseball isn’t just a game—it’s a system of emotional management, civic identity, and state power that shapes how cities gather, feel, and understand themselves.

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  • Toronto Baseball and the City’s Ritual of Power and Emotion
    November 5, 2025

    Toronto Baseball and the City’s Ritual of Power and Emotion

    How the 2025 Blue Jays run exposed Toronto’s emotional life, state power, colonial narratives, and the machinery that turns sports into civic governance.

    Read more: Toronto Baseball and the City’s Ritual of Power and Emotion
  • The Dodgers as a Blueprint for State Power
    November 4, 2025

    The Dodgers as a Blueprint for State Power

    How the Dodgers’ money, development machine, and World Series run expose MLB’s class system and show why structure, not vibes, decides who actually wins.

    Read more: The Dodgers as a Blueprint for State Power
  • The 9-Run Inning and What We Lose When Sports Become a Market
    November 4, 2025

    The 9-Run Inning and What We Lose When Sports Become a Market

    Toronto’s historic 9-run inning showed the magic of shared fandom, even as gambling culture threatens to turn every emotional moment into monetized content.

    Read more: The 9-Run Inning and What We Lose When Sports Become a Market
  • Doug Ford’s Ring of Fire Ads Backfire on Blue Jays Playoff Stage
    November 3, 2025

    Doug Ford’s Ring of Fire Ads Backfire on Blue Jays Playoff Stage

    Ontario’s pricey mining ads flooded Jays broadcasts, sparking backlash from fans, Indigenous nations, and reporters who say the project isn’t real or ready.

    Read more: Doug Ford’s Ring of Fire Ads Backfire on Blue Jays Playoff Stage
  • Why the Blue Jays Felt Magical but Weren’t Destined or Cursed
    November 3, 2025

    Why the Blue Jays Felt Magical but Weren’t Destined or Cursed

    Toronto’s 2025 World Series loss wasn’t just a game. It revealed the myths, structures, and civic psychology that shaped the run and deepened the city’s grief.

    Read more: Why the Blue Jays Felt Magical but Weren’t Destined or Cursed
  • Dodgers Win Game 7 Thriller as Jays’ Late Lead Evaporates
    November 2, 2025

    Dodgers Win Game 7 Thriller as Jays’ Late Lead Evaporates

    Toronto led nearly all night, only to watch a single impossible catch flip destiny, shatter belief, and expose the structural gulf that defined the 2025 World Series.

    Read more: Dodgers Win Game 7 Thriller as Jays’ Late Lead Evaporates
  • The Game 6 Lodged Ball Loss That Stunned Toronto
    October 31, 2025

    The Game 6 Lodged Ball Loss That Stunned Toronto

    A perfect swing, a trapped baseball, and a vanished run turned Game 6 into a surreal lesson in how rules, architecture, and chaos can upend an entire city’s hopes.

    Read more: The Game 6 Lodged Ball Loss That Stunned Toronto
  • Blue Jays Tilt Baseball’s Ritual North with Game 5 Victory
    October 29, 2025

    Blue Jays Tilt Baseball’s Ritual North with Game 5 Victory

    The Jays didn’t just win a baseball game. They performed a ritual, rewrote a prophecy, and tilted the empire’s diamond to face north.

    Read more: Blue Jays Tilt Baseball’s Ritual North with Game 5 Victory
  • Trust the Plan: Baseball as Statecraft
    October 29, 2025

    Trust the Plan: Baseball as Statecraft

    Modern Baseball, the Occult Ritual of North American Integration

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