Wanna Take Your Mind Off Politics For A While?? > Try Sports [Mesa Gets a Mention]

The author of this article that appeared recently in The New Yorker Magazine is David Axelrod who was the chief strategist for both of Barack Obama’s Presidential campaigns. He is the author of “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.”
Sporting Scene

The Most Pleasing Campaign of 2016

The Chicago Cubs look poised to end the longest championship drought in American sports.

By David Axelrod September 15, 2016

Local Connection: The team is here in Mesa for Spring Training at Sloan Park where you can hip-bumping action like this . . . Axelrod uses a different name for the $204 Million sports complex: The Underarmour Performance Center:

"Theo Epstein, the president of baseball operations for the Chicago Cubs, was running behind. “I just need a few minutes,” he said. “Have you eaten?” The still boyish former wunderkind, now forty-two, had one more matter to tend to before turning to our scheduled chat, so he deposited me in the staff cafeteria of the Under Armour Performance Center, the team’s new spring-training complex, in Mesa, Arizona. . . "