Someone once said that Baseball is Life. This is particularly true as Metaphor. So while we wait out the cruel winter and hold our breath for the new Dark Age to begin, let us take a brief look at some baseball images and their relation to our lives.
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| This is how the Trump Administration will make America great again. |
As you may know, a ridiculous tradition is popular among fans of the North Side of Chicago Baseball Club. When an opposing team's batter swats a home run into the Wrigley Field bleachers, fans will contemptuously heave the offending ball back into the outfield. This used to be done with relentless regularity when the Cubs were dependably awful. Outfielders don't like it because a ball coming back from the stands could hit them on the head; also, they don't like having to needlessly run down the ball in the field. Then there is the odious HiveMind reaction to anyone who doesn't comply. "Throw it back! Throw it back!!" the crowd chants over and over, louder and louder, until the peer pressure becomes so ugly that the ball is returned to the field. This is the fandom that turned Steve Bartman into a Witness Protection kind of guy. Anyway, this is all just a setup for the following gif:
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| Trump Base as Oblivious Cubs Fan (pick one, any one). |
The following is what happens when you mix too much alcohol and passion for the baseball. I believe this is a former girlfriend of mine. I was probably trying to hold her up/back. Did that a lot, I recall.
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| America trying to get the promised Greatness |
Now here's what the world really needs: The Washington Post has a new twitter feed that provides "context and corrections" to our President-elect's preferred form of communications/governance. It's really good! And you don't need to have a Twitter account to read it. Just click on the link regularly and you'll get fact checks on any of his latest tweet pronouncements!
Finally, as we look for more light in lengthening days, let us remember the words of our old friend Albert Camus, noted novelist, playwright, essayist, philosopher and White Sox fan:
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