Posted on 05/12/2016 7:34:42 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
It's hysteria, Carlos Beltran. Pure hysteria. Puerto Rico was thrown out of the game before it even entered the stadium
It’s a common theme of mine that the American spirit is growing steadily weaker. One way in which we see that is the propensity to become hysterical at the least provocation, the proverbial elephant afraid of the mouse. Witness the ongoing hysteria over the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
The latest victim is the impoverished U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which has struck out with Major League Baseball. A two-game series scheduled for the territory is being moved to Miami. Why? The Major League Baseball Players Union put a squeeze play on Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred to relocate the games, scheduled for the end of May, after several players expressed fears about getting and possibly transmitting the Zika virus.
Sounds like the right move to me. MLB doesn’t owe Puerto Rico anything, and they have enough problems without exposing players to mystery diseases.
There, fixed it.
“My travel agent told me I could spend six nights in Puerto Rico. No days, just six nights in Puerto Rico. I asked him what do I do during the day, he said, ‘I don’t care what you do, just stay out of Puerto Rico.’” - Rodney Dangerfield
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