When my now grown up son was very small, he had a record (yes, that’s right, one of those black things) containing a “Master’s of the Universe” story, which for a relatively long period of time we heard on a more than daily basis. The good guy was He-Man and the bad guy was Skeletor. Neither of them seemed interested in much other than defeating the other, but I gathered that He-Man was good because he had big muscles and he was blonde; Skeletor was bad because he had neither muscles (quite literally, I believe) nor hair.
Why, you might ask, am I bringing this up? Because I was reminded of the record yesterday as I watched the Evil Empire going down to defeat in its own lair. As the Yankees approached the final out, I recalled the last words of that record, which are still etched in my brain: “In the Universe, good always triumphs over evil”. Would that it were so, but good is at least triumphant in the world of baseball this year.
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