Seems like a poor parody or lampoon of the real thing.
I suppose the same could be said of co-ed high school marching bands. High school football, a poor social and political substitute for citizen soldiers?
Actually the opening ceremonies for the Olympics is to be broadcast on NBC tonight, I believe. A SJW festival? Will video be archived at the Youtube channel? It will be livestreamed:
Rod Carew and Tony Gwynn both had batting titles named after them. Are legitimate achievements overshadowed by suspicion that MLB is pushing a political agenda by naming the titles after two African-American men?
Then there was the secular religion on display, especially with the partnership between MLB and Stand Up 2 Cancer -- players, managers, coaches, officials, staff, fans holding up signs with the names of people they know affected by cancer and with whom they are standing, "intercessions" followed by this as a hymn:
Worse, FOX pushing feminism in the face of baseball fans by promoting their new show Pitch repeatedly during commercials:
Pitcher, the position least likely to be filled by a woman because they lack the upper body strength to throw baseballs fast enough -- just
blatant, in-your-face girl-power feminism. And it wasn't just the commercials; the FOX commentators, former baseball players, were being paid to promote this garbage. What a lack of manliness to stand up to it. They should have just quit rather than agree to it...
SWS45 World Series Cup FinalCongratulations Fiji, winner of Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens 2016, successfully defended their title by defeating New Zealand 21-7.
MadisonBumgarner - the Hickory Assassin. Works for me. Had to laugh at the neutered response given by the two hosts on KNBR after the suggestion was made. As if they would actually be critical of real-world assassinations... drone killings, any one?
Better a nickname which leads one to not take sports so seriously while respecting the abilities of players, than a nickname which feeds into the sports fanatic mindset. MadBum? That isn't offensive in a different way? Also funny that the local hero, at least for today, is a Southron. (You going to tell him he has a girl's name?)
Won't make it to the parade, probably wouldn't want to deal with the crowds anyway... May buy some merchandise for the Giants though...
Parade
This afternoon I was driving to a Chinese restaurant in Milpitas. 280/880 were rather empty today; most people were off the road watching the Super Bowl? You won't get that sort of abstaining from unnecessary travel on any other Lord's Day.
As a sport with martial origins, it should have been kept, but the IOC/Olympics is probably as PC and multiculturalist as it gets, these days. That girls have been allowed to participate in their own league and also against teenage boys in certain areas should not lead us to cast the sport into disrepute. The sport isn't the problem, but the culture.
They just finished showing the first game for the US women - tall, thin women are not that attractive. (The same could be said about women's volleyball, I suppose.) Some players look rather butch, and the older players have spent too much time in the sun and have lost too much fat in the face. Do men really watch this event? If so, I doubt it's for the visual appeal of the players, even if some decry their "uniforms" as being immodest.
I don't care for what the Olympics now represent, but I may watch a few of the events, if I take the trouble to remember to check the schedule. Gymnastics, even though the females can hardly be called women? There is nothing wrong with admiring physical ability and talent - if we remember Chariots of Fire and glorify God, both as athletes and spectators. (Or even the example of the ancient Greeks, for whom the games had a religious significance.) We don't have to watch the games with the meaning given to them by the IOC with its endorsement of PC values and secular [atheistic] humanism, or the accompanying nationalism that seems to dominate spectators and fans, or the crass commercialism of the corporate sponsors. (I hope there will be no doping scandals this year - alas the ideal of the amateur, where has that gone?)
