Decency Sucks

In my first trip to Fenway Park this year, I got to see a pretty good game, from pretty good seats. I saw something else, too - a new variation on the "Yankees Suck" theme that unfortunately pervades the atmosphere in and around Fenway Park even when the Yankees are a thousand miles away. A young boy, perhaps twelve years old, sported a t-shirt bearing the following legend:

Jeter Blows A-Rod (Yankees suck)

I've never liked the "Yankees Suck" school of baseball fandom. This is not because I am not a Red Sox fan. I just think it's sad when the favored expression of a baseball fan is not love for his own team but disparagement for another. It interferes with my fantasy view of baseball as a gentleman's game, a thinking man's game. Let the hockey fans spew effluvient invective at one another; baseball exists on a higher plane.

This examplar of the genre, however, was even worse, being particularly vulgar and displayed on a child. What kind of parent buys something like that for a kid, and allows him to wear it in public? And meanwhile, the FCC is running Howard Stern off the air. America is a ridiculous country.

Comments

[queenie]

Try as I might, I just can't get into baseball. But I thought you might enjoy this Tomato Nation essay which, alas, failed to persuade me to change my baseball-hatin' ways: http://www.tomatonation.com/9reasons.shtml

[carla]

Thanks for the funny essay, queenie - glad to see you checking in here. "Poo Holes!" Sad to say, that's about my level of humor.

Baseball's not for everyone - I won't begrudge your dislike of it, but personally I think it's the king of sports. I could articulate my reasons, but, like the Tomato Nation essay, they aren't going to change anyone's mind - waxing poetic about the beauty of baseball is most definitely preaching to the choir.

[superman]

fuck the coorporate world biiiatch