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drydemIt's absolutely no secret that I am a baseball fan. I love the sport and find it tragic that so few americans share my passion for it. So tonight, in the wake of the two most disappointing League Championship Series in my memory, I would like to reflect on what could have been. Imagine this...
The Cubs vs. The Red Sox, a series that America could actually care about.
It would have been played entirely on good old ballparks, full of character and with names that don't bring to mind cellphones or banks.
It would have been between two teams breaking away to try and finally overcome their strings of bad luck. One of them would have to win, and win big, and it would matter. Not just another feather in the vastly overpaid Yankees cap, but a series victory that meant the world to a city.
It could have really renewed American interest in Baseball, made people look and go wow, the game means something, like it used to. Two teams with intensely loyal national fan bases, head to head in the biggest match in baseball.
Instead, we have the Marlins vs. the Yankees. A matchup that nobody cares about. The team that could barely sell out it's own playoff games vs. the team that pays it's players as much as two other teams combined. One of them, the Marlins, is deserving but unappreciated. One of them, the Yankees, is just the annoying bully who keeps winning because he's bigger than all the other kids, but the teachers refuse to break up the fight.
There is no joy in Mudville.
The Cubs vs. The Red Sox, a series that America could actually care about.
It would have been played entirely on good old ballparks, full of character and with names that don't bring to mind cellphones or banks.
It would have been between two teams breaking away to try and finally overcome their strings of bad luck. One of them would have to win, and win big, and it would matter. Not just another feather in the vastly overpaid Yankees cap, but a series victory that meant the world to a city.
It could have really renewed American interest in Baseball, made people look and go wow, the game means something, like it used to. Two teams with intensely loyal national fan bases, head to head in the biggest match in baseball.
Instead, we have the Marlins vs. the Yankees. A matchup that nobody cares about. The team that could barely sell out it's own playoff games vs. the team that pays it's players as much as two other teams combined. One of them, the Marlins, is deserving but unappreciated. One of them, the Yankees, is just the annoying bully who keeps winning because he's bigger than all the other kids, but the teachers refuse to break up the fight.
There is no joy in Mudville.
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Date: 2003-10-17 07:38 am (UTC)btw. We have a pizza party at work this afternoon, scheduled yesterday, to celebrate the Sox win. My coworkers said that instead of pizza, we'll all be eating crow.
I look forward to going to a game at Fenway with you in the spring. It may not be the World Series, but it'll still be Fenway.
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