Excuse Me If I Don’t Get All Mushy
Posted by SBG on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Peter Gammons gets pretty much misty eyed over Josh Hamilton. Yep, he's off to a great start, yep, he had a great first round in the Home Run Derby, yep, it's good to see him battle his demons, but I'm not sure he's on par with Jackie Robinson quite yet. Furthermore, I'm not sure his feel good story justifies this:
Baseball is not about corporate boxes and extracting licensing pennies from poor kids or taxpayer dollars donated to construct ballparks to help billionaires make millions.
Major league baseball is a business. It is about corporate boxes, licensing fees, and taxpayer dollars. Yes, fans get enjoyment from the product, but the reason the league exists is to make money.
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That was awful and much worse than anything TJ has written in the past 2 years.
Yep, pretty bad.
Cal Ripken changed lives? Did he repair cleft palates on little children in Africa during the offseason or summat?
Before Cal Ripken came into my life, I was a shiftless ne'er-do-well. Now, I go to work every morning AND I wear a clean shirt.
Interesting. Ripken inspired me to watch baseball every day, because if he wasn't going to miss a game, neither was I.
How can you be a scrappy gamer in a clean shirt?
How is the studying for the bar post related to this one?
There was a Peter Gammons article that I referenced in there. I'm going back in the archives and adding tags. A long, slow process.