Talking Baseball: 03/28/2005
As the Western world prepares for Opening Day, I think it is appropriate to talk about this day and the hope and bitterness that it means for baseball fans everywhere.
Every year, all fans from the New York Yankees to the Brewers have a ray of hope, that this will be the year for their team. Larger market teams talk about the big show, the World Series, but smaller market teams like the Brewers have the hope that it will be their year to break a .500 record. It represents everything that is good in baseball, and that is certainly needed in the current state of baseball. Eventually, Bud Selig will retire in shame, and a more qualified and honest Commisioner can be appointed, and baseball will once again inspire hope in the kids. Because isn't that what it is all about? The kids.
And now on to the bitterness, which is represented by the inevitability of certain truths. The Brewers will never break .500, let's be serious. The Red Sox, will not will this year, and that team will go down in history as the team that gave hope to an entire nation late in 2004. But what makes me bitter as a Yankees fan, that the Red Sox will be receiving their rings in Yankee Stadium. Bud Selig, you are responsible for this. You could have blocked this move so devoid of any amount of class, that it is disgusting that this team plays in the American League. Get a haircut you bunch of hippies, and some respect.
So with spring in pretty much full kick, and basketball slowly being covered less in the Post, my days are looking up.
Every year, all fans from the New York Yankees to the Brewers have a ray of hope, that this will be the year for their team. Larger market teams talk about the big show, the World Series, but smaller market teams like the Brewers have the hope that it will be their year to break a .500 record. It represents everything that is good in baseball, and that is certainly needed in the current state of baseball. Eventually, Bud Selig will retire in shame, and a more qualified and honest Commisioner can be appointed, and baseball will once again inspire hope in the kids. Because isn't that what it is all about? The kids.
And now on to the bitterness, which is represented by the inevitability of certain truths. The Brewers will never break .500, let's be serious. The Red Sox, will not will this year, and that team will go down in history as the team that gave hope to an entire nation late in 2004. But what makes me bitter as a Yankees fan, that the Red Sox will be receiving their rings in Yankee Stadium. Bud Selig, you are responsible for this. You could have blocked this move so devoid of any amount of class, that it is disgusting that this team plays in the American League. Get a haircut you bunch of hippies, and some respect.
So with spring in pretty much full kick, and basketball slowly being covered less in the Post, my days are looking up.
1 Comments:
no doubt selig's a slimy bastard. trying to bury the twins and expos was not good PR... although baseball shouldn't have expanded in the 90's in the first place. and there's the steroids thing. and the conflict of interest when he owned the brewers. and the 1994 strike.
but he also oversaw the biggest boom in baseball popularity in 30 years (steroid-influenced or not), managed to get the game back in DC (a baseball hotbed), increased revenue-sharing and instituted a luxury tax, and got a new agreement with MLBPA. so he's been kind of a mixed bag.
anyway... april 3rd is 5 days away.
play ball, bitches!
By Anonymous, At 11:30 AM EST
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