Obviously, Richard Nixon got a lot of things wrong. But one thing he got really, really right was having an Enemies List. I don’t think the right people were on it, but the idea is genius. Across so many dimensions of my life, I try to be level-headed, but baseball is the perfect outlet for my id to go wild. The stakes are low enough that I can be like Betty Draper:
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For several years, I’ve been keeping a Baseball Enemies List, and I highly encourage everyone to do the same.