Angry God on the Loose in Arizona
Saunter over to the NL WAR leaderboards, and you’ll find that the Corsairs’ Andrew McCutchen has been the second-most valuable position player in the senior circuit this season. Despite such impressive bestowals, McCutchen was left off the NL All-Star roster. The All-Star Game, of course, will go down in Chase Field in Phoenix. And here is what the angry, hovering godhead in charge of baseball and nature has wrought at the location in question …
Lo, it is a sandstorm! But could this possibly have something to do with the snubbing of Andrew McCutchen? Here’s a better question: Why would you ask something like that?
Sand-covered embrace: Big League Stew
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Apparently these sandstorms are called a “haboob”. Vocab word of the day!
Other than the jaw-dropping photographs, the widespread knowledge of the word “haboob” has been one of the best things to come of this phenomenon.