Word: ways
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...disc homages to other singers (Bob Wills, Hank Williams and Leon Payne among them), but this one, originally released in 1964, is the most successful. Maybe because he was awed by Wills and Williams, he tended to imitate on those discs; on the Dickens album he did it his way. And rather than playing Dickens' novelty tunes - though he used one or two - he dug deeper to mine some of the many ballads that Dickens used to fill out his albums and shows...
...Yankees win, well, so much the better. A fitting and glorious way to close an epochal chapter in baseball history. But the town bully doesn't get to gloat...
...unthinkable but quite plausible: The Yankees lose. It will be the end of the era, and it will have come at the hands of the Mets. Yankees fans generally don't stoop to having much ill will for their younger siblings in Queens - they're kind of cute, the way they only win every once in a great while. But that doesn't mean they're allowed to supplant us. They'll be yapping about it all winter, like little dogs, and probably for years to come. And we probably won't get a rematch for another two decades, because...
...very exciting for the rest of us when one team keeps hogging the spotlight. The Yankees have too much money - not that the Mets are exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel, but the Yanks have this aura of wealth that I find unispiring. If I had my way, there'd be a moratorium on World Series until the year when two economically struggling teams clawed their way up to the championship. The Pirates, for example, and maybe the Minnesota Twins...
...teams representing two nations (a concept which is understandably alien to baseball fans) stretch over five days. There is a reason for this. The English (who devised cricket and exported it to what was then its empire) are not a very spiritual nation. So cricket was invented as a way of defining infinity...