Baseball is a funny game? Last year around this same time, I went over to the Red Sox home page to wish them well, and to have a speedy recovery! I explained to them how I was a fourth generation Yankee fan, and how it just wasn't the same without them in the race! Them, tugging at our pant legs, or them, shattering our dreams?
Fast forward a year, and it is my Yankees who seem destitute, and the Red Sox lead 5-0 in game one of the World Series! By anyone's standards, that is a huge reversal of fortune in only one year! Knowing the game of baseball, I have no doubt that there are Red Sox players and fans who feel the same way about the Yankees this year as I did for the Red Sox last year! That is one of the beautiful things about baseball, Rivalries! And these two teams go all the way back to the start of professional baseball!
The Yankees and the Red Sox have played some of the most memorable games not only of baseball, but of sport! We love the game because it strives to be pure. Obviously, this is true throughout the world. People love their games because they are honest, pure competition! Man against man, player against player, and team against team. When they are played as they are meant to be played, it is a beautiful thing!
Now I didn't come all this way just to tell you this, but since it came to mind, I guess I'll just go with it? It was the great Vin Scully who dubbed Yankee Stadium as the Cathedral of Baseball but not wholley for the Yankees, but rather, for the game itself. That is how revered we Americans hold our sport! The reason that Bob Costas offended so many people is not because of his politics, but rather that he saw no problem at all with sullying our game with the filth of politics! The play by play booth is no place for politics, what it is for, is the celebration of sport, and isn't that one of the things that is best about us?
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