A little blog from an upstart theologian that will do its best to exemplify Christ while sharing a thing or two along the way.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005 Sports and TortsThe spring days are soon ahead of us. Memories of dew misting the soft green grass of the infield on your local Little League Baseball Diamond, the smells of a new day filling your senses, a soft breeze caressing your neck. The days when the familiar metallic ding of an alluminum bat against a baseball are soon upon us. Yet as march through this month and into Opening Day with the Little Leaugers' schedules full of potential wins we do so with the spectre of a atheletes abusing substances that gave them an unfair edge. For me, this is another disgrace for Major League Baseball. The disgraces for Baseball all seem to come from the same location. The Players' Union. After several years of strikes, threatened strikes, steriod cover-ups, player misconduct, and so forth Baseball has successfully forfeited itself from the once  uncontested moniker of Great American Past Time. We, the once loyal fan base, have been forced to endure all the pointless histrionics from both owners and players while hoping that we can once again go and drink in the rich atmosphere that is the stadium. Now we find ourselves staring at continual news stories about player substance abuse and their staring back at us chastizing us, the fans for not believing it is natural to gain 150% more muscle mass naturally over the course of an off season. We sit and groan internally as another player ascribes his John Hancock to another deal worth more than any of us will ever see in 100 years...all so he can chase a little ball around with his friends. We sit and watch the teachers in our high schools dodge bullets, spitballs, curses, and threats every day for what one of these players makes in a week. Of course I need not further explore the problems in salary differences here.This is not to say all baseball players are evil, nor are all owners of teams evil. Rather I believe there are many who wish to do good, but are trapped in a bad situations with the aggressive nature of the players' union. In surveying the landscape of American life I believe the issue of unions is one which needs to be addressed. Unions once played a great role in providing a strong voice for downtrodden workers in our country, yet in contemporary America they have become nothing more than a hindrance to some companies' productivity. This is exactly the case in Major League Baseball. The union has so confounded the ability of players to play and owners to...well..own that we the once supportive fan public are left sitting in the stands wondering what happened to our fond memories of spring, summer, and if we're lucky...fall. When will the greed for powerful and lucer finally give way so we can be returned to a enjoying the game without bitterness? We deserve better than hiding behind lawyers and stolid denial. We deserve more than cop outs and refusing to talk about the past. If there are still good men in the game will they stand up and say enough? Baseball is facing a time when they must either choose to right road to fall into the trap of the NHL and face exteremination by their own hand. posted by Preachin Jesus | 9:25 AM | |
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