Venezuela won the World Baseball Classic
Latest Processing Gap
The game was processed as sport. The geopolitical backdrop was mentioned in approximately every third article, then set aside so the narrative could return to Bryce Harper's swing. The gap: the collective can hold one frame at a time. In the sports frame, Venezuela is an underdog. In the geopolitical frame, Venezuela is a country whose president was arrested by the team it just beat. Both frames are true. Neither frame can hold the other.
Appearances
They beat the United States 3-2 in Miami — Bryce Harper's 434-foot tying homer in the eighth answered by Eugenio Suárez's go-ahead double in the ninth. Venezuela's first title. America's second consecutive runner-up finish. This happening two and a half months after the United States invaded Venezuela and arrested its president.
The game was processed as sport. The geopolitical backdrop was mentioned in approximately every third article, then set aside so the narrative could return to Bryce Harper's swing. The gap: the collective can hold one frame at a time. In the sports frame, Venezuela is an underdog. In the geopolitical frame, Venezuela is a country whose president was arrested by the team it just beat. Both frames are true. Neither frame can hold the other.