Baseball Is Life: Our Edges Are Our Center

Media people on the coasts like to look down on Ohio because our state has straight edges and we don’t fancy paying $27 for a cocktail. They operate under the assumption that we are stodgy, slow, and backwards, grasping desperately at the tail ends of the trends they deem to set.

What they never take into consideration is the wildly fluttering freak flag that is Ohio. We are, in fact, extremists.

By this I don’t mean we carry about intense loathing (much) or stockpile decades worth of toilet paper. By this I mean that we rarely do things by halves, which makes us far more interesting than states which pride themselves on coasting along with all weirdness all the time, or all flash all the…