Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
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2008 MLB Mid-Season Review: Magic 8 Ball says Cubs Win! Cubs Win! Cubs Win!July 17th, 2008
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Written July 12, 2008
We’ve nearly reached the 2008 All-Star game, where the brilliance of big boppers and showstoppers are expected to deliver on queue. The passionate baseball fan basks in the rays of the perennial favorites: the A-Rods, the Jeters and the Mannys of the hardball world. While the youngsters likely find their new idols in the Sotos and the Longorias rising to meet new acclaim and new expectations in their 1st all-star bash.
It is great time set in an equally great ballpark. The ‘Stadium’ that shone brightly while Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Mantle and Jackson took their game to unparalleled heights. That had Larsen’s perfect game in 1956 World Series. Jackson’s three straight trips to souvenir city in 1977. Whitey Ford’s scoreless brilliance topping Ruth’s in pitching. And 26 times saw the House rock and roll before a new one was built. The passing of an 86-year old comrade that has shared its glory and defined a dynasty. Yankee Stadium will be missed.
Which is why this mid-heaven classic, during Manhattanhenge, is a time to pay homage, and to destine (possibly) whom will be in hunt for October glory. Read more
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The 4th of July: A day of reflection on America’s past, present and futureJuly 5th, 2008
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As we go into the 232nd year of our nation’s birth, we are faced with an inordinate amount of negative news that takes away from the pleasures and prosperity of being American.
Fuel and food prices are rising daily. Wage deterioration and job losses are consistently highlighted on the tube. Energy conservation and constrictions, environmental issues and policies and safety and security strategies are, in essence, all tied together by the fact that we, as human beings, have only this one world, and it is not unlimited in resources, but it is boundless in the harm it can do to us, if we allow it.
We are also reminded of these matters by the presidential election of 2008. A race highlighted by the 1st woman and 1st African-American to realistically run for the highest office in the land. A political race with a man known first as a 5 ½ year veteran of a Vietnam prison camp, then as the oldest man to contend for the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue address.
As this takes place, in the distant backdrop comes the idea of sports. The way many escape their problems and woes of 8-6 workday, complaining spouses and children, overbearing bosses and unhelpful nosey neighbors, and the fact, this world is perceived as worse than the world of our childhood, or our father’s childhood. In verity, it is only the changing faces of leadership and altered ways to communicating that may be at the crux of this worsening outlook we perceive.Poetic our forefathers were.
But even these sports have gone astray in our minds.