Thursday, October 26, 2006
We're now on Day 4 of "Dirtgate" (a term I loath), and given the lack of actual baseball to talk about, I suppose commentators have to fill their pages and airtime with something. But one of the reasons I enjoy sports so much is that compared to the "real world," at the end of the day there's a final box score, and you can move on. I'm reminded of the baseball documentary "When It Was A Game." Perhaps it's nostalgia for a time that never really existed, but wouldn't it be nice to go back to a time when it really was just a game?
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Was it ever really "just a game" though? Hasn't there always been some sort of story that has accompanied baseball? I think the expansion of the mass media over the last 50 years has just shown us what has always gone on. You could start with hateful, racist comments and actions of our own Ty Cobb. It continued with the 1919 Black Sox; the alcohol problems of the Babe; the rumors of DiMaggio taking "swings" at Marilyn, etc. Baseball, by far, is my favorite sport and I do agree that it should be all about the game, and less about the drama. But when you have grown men being paid millions to play nine innings between the chalk lines, the "real world" can't help but creep in.
Plus the fact that incredibly talented athletes don't have to answer for their actions starting at a very early age. Add a bunch of cameras and we're bound to see some shady behavior on TV. Still, Cardinal fans upset about cheating Tigers are being completely hypocritical. There's the whole fact that LaRussa didn't want Rogers searched because he didn't want Weaver searched. Then there's Mark McGuire...
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