Hit bull, win steak.
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The best thing about covering fun-n-games for money was this: I went to every game in my 40-year writing career armed with the childlike notion I might see something I’d never seen before. It didn’t happen a lot, just enough to keep the thought viable.
Then this past weekend, I saw Elly De La Mantle deposit a baseball into the centerfield steamboat, a crew of environmental weirdos toss paint on the 18th green at a PGA Tour event and Donald Trump call his hair “luxuriant.’’ (And if you don’t think writing about Trump is a game, well, maybe you slept through the past eight years.)
Strange days, people. Madness has never been more entertaining.
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