Writing around the idea that baseball is a game slightly ahead of its time. A 'simple' game the qualities of which include physical and metaphysical paradoxes: the two dimensional diamond with-in the sphere; the struggle between individuals with-in a complex group dynamic.
Baseball is like a school of the Socratic method: it asks questions - the consideration of which lead to more questions - a process that illuminates a path towards critical thought.
Monday, May 22, 2006
The Great Barry Bonds
Now that Commissioner Selig, Congress and the Attorney General are on his case, Bonds gives interview and press conference. But he reserves the right to comment on the trick.
Which is interesting.
Imagine your in Barry's' shoes, a super star. Half the media in the room are there because the other half are there. Piranha. The flotsam and jetsam of a over-weight ship of fools.
"Next question. Because that's stupid." Bonds then turns to the reporter standing 'right next to him, "How are you?" he asks. The Reporter doesn't respond to his question, instead ignores it and starts in with her own question. Bonds interrupts, "That's it, end of press conference, bye."
Bonds chooses to make comment upon the circus; but I Dream that one day the Prince would turn the tables on his pimps...
The guilty (but not guilty) Prince, forced by his King to do good deeds amongst the filthy masses and the ink stained wretches. An ordeal he lessens by telling the gathered throng secrets from with-in the castle.)
"Barry! Barry! United Press, what's the REAL truth Barry"
'Well... the Owners were complicit in the steroid scandal; They juiced the ball,the prince continues, some Pitcher god forbid is going to take one in the head; they brought in the fences for the spectacle of the home run - they dumbed-down the game. They conspired to bankrupt the Montreal Expos franchise, one of their own, for profit. They're liars, they,re ingenuous, greedy, and morally bankrupt. Not only that but perhaps they're most egregious act, the institution of the DH.'
If he would do that, Barry Bonds would be my hero.
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