- Who are the intended readers, and how does the writer address them?
audience: average people who read Time magazine/ people who understand irony, he addresses them with a lot of sarcasm and irony, he calls them “Yankee haters”
- What values do the readers and writer seem to have in common? How does the writer appeal to them?
they both are “patriotic” in a sense and he’s using that appeal to drag them into supporting his claim. americans are very passionate about sports, so he uses a sports analogy.
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