Regarding baseball, what Jason said: “It’s a superstitious game, it’s a reverent game, it’s tangled up with all sorts of enormous hopes and wishes. Drink decaf by mistake, then hit three home runs in a game, and you’ll probably drink decaf until your luck turns. There’s a certain magic in baseball that no other game can claim. There’s no Field of Dreams for any other sport; sure, there’s Air Bud. But the closest you’ll come to magical football movies or basketball movies are the ones that portray actual events— great odds overcome, championships won and lost, that sort of thing. Baseball is poetry and romance and heartbreak. Nothing else is quite like it. Except for maybe poetry and romance and heartbreak.”