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There's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring, which makes it like sex.
— Annie Savoy · Bull Durham
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker compares baseball to sex by pointing to a shared quality: neither leaves room for shame, and both stay endlessly engaging. It's a playful, confident defense of a sport she clearly reveres. The comparison elevates the game from pastime to something intimate and unapologetically pleasurable.
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