This Will Get Baseball Fans Through the Next Month -2

1/27/2014

But why can't we play two? Courtesy of: stuckattheairport.com.

Brian Savin

1/27/2014 12:16:32 pm

Old Time photograph that I wish were true today. One can lose all sense of anticipation and excitement if the season is too long. Baseball is now like hockey, over 9 months. I remember when the only thing you get in February was Street and Smith's Baseball Yearbook. And the November Classic was played in October. I liked that.

Charlie Accetta

1/27/2014 12:21:32 pm

Ernie Banks was already on the downside of a wonderful career when I became familiar with him, but he was still good for the long ball and the smiling countenance. There are people like Ernie who are blessed because they bless us. I always had the feeling he didn't really want to play two except that we wanted to watch him play two and he was thrilled to oblige.

Richard Goldstein

1/27/2014 02:36:04 pm

And it's only nine months or so till the Cubs play Game 1 in the World Series.

George Vecsey

1/28/2014 12:37:24 am

medical marijuana?

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Welcome to World Cup 2022, the most absurd thing that the routinely absurd world of sports has ever produced.
Those extreme descriptions were what virtually the entire world, save for those who had walked off with bags of cash from Qatar, called the awarding of soccer’s greatest event to the incredibly tiny, incredibly wealthy country back in 2010.
Twelve years ago, many were convinced this event couldn’t possibly happen: staging the world’s biggest sporting event in a country the size of Connecticut, one with zero soccer culture and even less soccer infrastructure? The tournament couldn’t possibly take place in 120-degree heat, and FIFA, the governing body of soccer, most certainly wouldn’t upend football leagues around the world to change the traditional summer schedule, could it?
And, for God’s sake, what about the beer?
Those were just the logistical concerns. The moral concerns are far more distressing. FIFA, so busy paying lip service to equality, couldn’t possibly expect the world to embrace a country where you could go to prison for being gay, where women’s rights are severely curtailed and female victims of sexual assault could go to prison, charged with engaging in extramarital sex. And all those questions came before the global realization that the World Cup was being built on the backs of migrant labor: modern-day slaves held in Qatar with virtually no rights, low wages and no ability to leave. Migrants make up 90% of Qatar’s stated population of 3 million. The country’s native-born equal about 300,000, or roughly the size of Anaheim.
---Ann Killion, columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle.

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