Baseball and culture

Well, Manny just struck out again. The Red Sox are not looking so hot right now. I am now going to go on my "baseball as a reflection of society" rant. The Boston Sporting Globe, er Boston Globe, just had a story about how women wearing pink Red Sox caps should be stoned to death. It didn't really say that, but it may as well have. The jist of the story was that only the "real" fan had a right to root for the Sox. Anyone was new, who hadn't been rooting for the Sox since they were 5, was a poseur at best and like I said, should be stoned to death, no, spit on and kicked into the gutter. I'm a native Northern Californian. I can't imagine anyone in Giant's territory having that kind of attitude.

Today, top of the news, Manny pushed a Red Sox employee down because he couldn't get 16 tickets for a game. Puhleeze. How I want to love Boston, but it is so, so hard when stuff like this is going on. I have lived in New England for 22 years and I am still looking for general civility. It is like the lowest common denominator has become the norm. It became real to me with the "Yankees suck" T-shirts. If my sons had walked in wearing those shirts I would have fainted. Actually the biggest shock was when I was in the Stop and Shop and saw a woman standing in line with her teen-age son and she had on a T-shirt that actually had the "F word" printed on it. I want anyone reading this to think about their mother wearing that across her chest. What has happened to our society?

It's late and I could go on and on. I will let it rest for now and just pray that civility returns.