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By: Scholars and Rogues » Blog Archive » 2007 in Review, pt. 4: The agony of defeat…

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By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:24:11 +0000

I had a piece all ready – one of my rhapsodic musings on baseball and life – called *756.

Than you go and point out an obvious way of handling this….

By: fikshun

fikshun — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:18:45 +0000

I agree with Russ Wellen’s comment about baseball’s appeal coming from identifying with the everyman. I’d go further and say people identified with it because it’s a sport almost everyone could play. You don’t have to be tall, thin, or even well-conditioned to play some catch in the backyard.

Times have changed though. Rich baseball players are no longer everymen. There’s very little left to identify with. People have changed, too. As Americans get fatter and more sedentary, it’s no wonder Poker ratings have soared on sports channels.

A-Rod may be a punk, but I’d rather see a punk on top of the home runs list than a cheat. This sport has had so many black eyes over the years, that it’s become unwatchable.

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:33:10 +0000

Sports has been shifted under the category of “guilty pleasure” for me. Wouldn’t feel guilty about it if, because of the size of their salaries — and heads, e.g., Bonds (literally, in his case), they weren’t now in the same category as the super-rich.

Part of baseball’s appeal was that everyman could identify with the players. Not so much because of their low salaries, but because the fans’ body types weren’t that different from the players’. Now we’re in an age of Supermen.

If you don’t like A-Rod, Sam, you must have been happy that Cynthia (you know, the one who went to the park one day with “f**k you” imprinted on the back of her shirt) Rodriguez showed up late and missed his 500th.

In an aside, I happened to be at Yankee Stadium the day in 1967 that Mickey Mantle hit his 500th (and limped around the bases).

By: Sam Smith

Sam Smith — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:59:12 +0000

I hate the Yankees and A-Rod is a bush-league punk. So even if he does, there’s little solace in it….

By: Mike Sheehan

Mike Sheehan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:51:45 +0000

What are you fretting about? A-Rod’s gonna obliterate Asterisk’s record in due time. Especially if, as he reaches his fatass sluggard years, he starts on Barry’s cream regimen.

By: buzzflash.net

buzzflash.net — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:48:10 +0000

Great week in baseball history