Three of the most hysterical, knee-slapping, laugh out loud moments of mirth witnessed recently.
1. WAC Commissioner Karl Benson’s statement about the Boise State Broncos: “They certainly have established themselves as a credible, legitimate, bona fide top 10 team.”
— No offense to the coaches, players, fans and the guy who dipped too deep into the mushrooms just before suggesting a blue playing surface, but the day a college football team makes a run at the national title playing such powerhouses as Hawaii, Bowling Green and Tulsa is the day Megan Fox announces her intention to join a convent.
2. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker on life with her two surrogate-born daughters around the house: “I love the smell of diapers; I even like when they’re wet and you smell them all warm like a baked good.”
— A hand up now from the parents of every newborn who wakes in the morning, take a deep breath and immediately thinks, “Mmmmm, croissants!”
3. Sports reporters, writers, commentators, hangers-ons, haters, whiners, weasels, wheezers and geezers falling over themselves to be first in resurrecting the age-old standby about buying a title when a certain team wins the World Series.
— It’s one of those stories always hanging around in the folder marked “Pre-Vacation”. Others waiting to be used when inspiration is lacking include “Pete Rose & The Hall of Fame”, “NFL & Guns: The Case of (Insert Player Name Here)”, and “Best & Worst Sports Movies of All Time”.
And there they were, the very next morning after the Yankees proved they were the best team in baseball by defeating the—as I heard one breathless reporter call them—“the gritty, earthy and tenacious Philadelphia Phillies”.
Hmm. Must have missed one of those story titles in the back of the folder. But I digress.
Yes, the NY Yankees did indeed buy their World Series Championship. They used their considerable fiscal clout to outspend, out hustle, and out promote themselves to every star player they could find as the one team that could win it all. If the Yankees weren’t a baseball franchise, they would be a group of businessmen determined to spend insane amounts of cash in a drunken spree designed to win the fight. And, of course, to prove to detractors and foul enemies they don’t need no stinking permission to keep writing checks paid for by the working-class man and woman.
For some reason I have this urge to book a trip to visit Washington, D.C. Oh well, I digress once again.
To slam the Yankees for buying a World Series title is comparable to chastising lions in the wild. Those feasting on anything too slow, too cumbersome, and lacking in intelligence. The easy prey that fails to learn how to mix intelligence with a better use of their surroundings to either not be devoured whole or, when possible, use what is at hand in the wild to turn the hunter into the hunted.
Let’s put this into baseball parlance.
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