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Insights & Opinions | June 17, 2014

The religion of sports

Sports

This week I had a chance to go to a baseball game in Baltimore with a couple of coworkers.

Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore (Associated Press/Photo by Patrick Semansky)

This week I had a chance to go to a baseball game in Baltimore with a couple of coworkers. Camden Yards is one of my favorite places to watch a game, so I was excited. Well, that, and my extreme enjoyment of baseball in general. So I was stunned to find out that one of my coworkers did not want to go. I thought:What is wrong with him? He must be dense in the head or emotionally broken or something. I reasoned, persuaded, argued, harassed, harangued, cajoled, and even threatened (mildly) to no avail. He simply doesn't like sports.

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