Posted on 09/28/2017 1:08:52 PM PDT by TBP
Set to one side that the reason most Americans can sing the words to their national anthem is that for generations, every American attending a professional baseball game has stood to look at the flag while someone sings “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Many Americans think the last words of the national anthem are “Play ball!”
Baseball is about baseball. The NFL and NBA seem to be about more things than I can process—some of them political, some of them personal.
Baseball has an informal code of on-field conduct, which has held for a hundred years. The NFL doesn’t seem to have an enforceable code of anything.
Last Sunday, after the New York Giants’ wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. caught a touchdown pass, Mr. Beckham got down in the end zone and imitated a dog urinating on a fire hydrant, which the opposing Philadelphia Eagles (who won) took as mockery of their team.
From Babe Ruth 90 years ago to Aaron Judge now, when you hit a home run, you run around the bases and into the dugout. That’s it. No end-zone antics that suggest the sport itself takes a back seat to a personality.
After the Yankees’ Mr. Judge hit his 50th home run this week, a record for a rookie, his teammates had to force him out of the dugout to wave to the cheering crowd.
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Not going to happen. At most in the NFL and NBA.
It certainly took root in the rest of the Americas and in Japan. Not so much elsewhere. I’d be curious to know if Japan picked it up in the postwar era from American troops.
Cards eliminated.
Brewers (2 back) given a 6% of overtaking the Rockies for the 2nd wild card. They go to STL for the last 3. Rockies host the Dodgers.
Cause i played it till 19
My catcher only needed one finger
Nobody crowded the strike zone
http://m.mlb.com/news/article/250592966/billy-bean-attends-first-cardinals-pride-night/
https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/blues/EN/promotion/home
Both the St. Louis cardinals and the blues have rainbow themed nights where they celebrate homosexuals. They are disgusting. This is happening all over both leagues. Until this practice stops I am done with both the mlb and nhl. I can guarantee they wouldn’t have MAGA themed nights. They are sickening.
Being from New York, I’ll overlook your first sentence. :)
SoxNation starting to be teary eyed
Here is an alternate link:
http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/why-i-prefer-baseball-by-daniel-henninger/
ff
Quentin Berry stole 2nd. Stranded, as Brewers dream ends . . .
Last call for football picks, or I’ll guess yours, you’re going with the Redskins and Bills, right? ;d Don’t worry about Bendy, just don’t ping him. ;d
Congrats to the Rockies. First postseason trip since 2009 (lost NLDS to eventual NL champ Phillies, 3-1).
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