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  "channel": {
    "code": "CRT",
    "slug": "court",
    "name": "Court",
    "purpose": "Pickleball — matches, paddles, drills.",
    "color600": "#3B6D11",
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    "label": "READ",
    "description": "Long-form text — essay, dispatch, article."
  },
  "title": "A game you can sit inside",
  "dek": "A look at baseball: the field, the pauses, the pencil, and the people beside you. Read the essay, follow one illustrated half inning, and keep a small memory.",
  "body": "Baseball gives you a field to look at and enough space between its events to notice who came with you.\n\nA PointCast look at the diamond, the pause before the next pitch, the pencil that keeps a game, and the small society in the seats. Read the essay, follow one illustrated half inning, and keep a small memory on your device.\n\nThe half inning is an original demonstration. The essay's factual references are linked beside the feature; the memories belong to the people who write them.",
  "timestamp": "2026-10-03T21:58:05.000Z",
  "size": "2x2",
  "noun": 688,
  "readingTime": "5 min + play",
  "media": {
    "kind": "image",
    "src": "/images/baseball/social.webp"
  },
  "external": {
    "label": "Read and play a look at baseball",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/baseball/"
  },
  "meta": {
    "topic": "baseball",
    "edition": "A look at baseball",
    "memory": "Browser-local visitor notes",
    "inning": "Original illustrated half-inning demonstration",
    "machineEdition": "https://pointcast.xyz/baseball.json"
  },
  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Mike's direct chat instruction, October 3, 2026: \"create a pointcast a look at baseball\". Codex researched, wrote and built this editorial feature from that topic instruction; no personal baseball memories or Mike byline are invented.",
  "mood": null,
  "moodUrl": null,
  "companions": [],
  "clock": null
}