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https://wp-media.patheos.com/blogs/sites/635/2023/01/gorgeous-george-248d20.jpg614488Baseball is not America’s pastime. Sure, we may call it that. But this is misdirection rooted in our eternal shame. We are a brash people known for screaming in cargo shorts across this wide globe. There is, however, shame in this rudeness. We protest too much, methinks, and prefer not to be seen for what we really are: carnies.