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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
It's only a stupid game, for pete's sake, whereas the real heroes are overseas taking it to the bad guys. This kind of stuff just ticks me off...

Grow up, already. These are not mutually exclusive. He showed class in calling the new home run king in America's pastime and congratulating him. Geez...

21 posted on 08/08/2007 1:33:38 PM PDT by Go Gordon (The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.)
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To: Go Gordon
I do believe that they are mutually exclusive, at least in terms of modern sports (excepting people Jim Thorpe, Babe Ruth, Jesse Owens, Jackie Robinson, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis, etc. who actually contributed something meaningful to society in the course of their careers).

Nowadays, I cringe almost every time somebody like Bonds is held up as a "hero" and treated like royalty when they really do nothing more than excel (either fairly or by cheating) at a game that is no longer the same game that Mantle and Gehrig played.

My real point here is that this country's priorities are really screwed up, perhaps hopelessly, by its obsession with celebrities and sports stars.

34 posted on 08/08/2007 2:18:05 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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