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Cal Ripken indirectly was responsible for the Orioles being bridesmaids and not champions.

The Streak became bigger than him.

Cal Ripken almost single-handedly saved major league baseball.

Remember the strike? Remember how people were turned off on MLB? What brought the fans back?

And, besides that, Cal Ripken is a great human being. Some people just hate that.

And he looked great sitting at court-side the other night when the Terps kicked the crap out of the Dukies.

MLB is to the sports press like the Republicans are to the MSM. The sports writers are the ones who really caused the problems MLB had with the strike that lasted for some years. For some reason, it's OK (and even expected) for the witless wonders who are sports writers to diss MLB, but not say a word about the totally worthless sport of major league wrestling - I mean football.

Remember when the owners tried to grow a pair and field replacement teams - every single sports writer told every one of their followers how pathetic this sport was to try such as thing. The owners learned their lesson very quickly - their job is to pay whatever it takes to make the sports writers happy.

Remember last season? Just about every writer was having a big "ha ha" about how pathetic the MLB drug policy was - this after the owners did their level best to convince the union of players to accept even this much. If the owners had tried to put their foot down, the press would have crucified them. Just like it's OK for the press to diss Christians, it's OK for them hate baseball, but like a sport with 60% commercials, buffoon-like announcers, a major league of prisons, and players with a room temperature IQ.

Like the republican party, baseball's problems lie more with the press than anything else.

I was stationed in Havana when Cal was about to break Gehrig's record. We had a big crowd around the bar at the Seabee House (formerly Marine House) on Ave 7ma. We had a group of Cuban baseball fans (the ones that worked for us). It was almost like that game was scripted. Cal hit one home run and when he ran the bases, there were no dry eyes in the house. He truly did save baseball that evening, after the acrimony generated by the MLB strike.