Born in Pittsburgh a mere six months before Maz's World Series miracle, I have been an avid baseball fan my entire life.
In recent years, however, I have become increasingly alarmed at the way that Major League Baseball panders to the military.
Frankly, it is disgusting. To link the national pastime with a professional, imperialistic military, is a betrayal of the values that make a free, civil society possible--values that one finds mirrored in the game of baseball itself.
This has happened on Bud Selig's watch and I can only hope that his successor will have more respect for the meaning of civil society--i.e., the life of a country's citizenry that is conducted beyond the bounds of governmental influence or control.
The militarization of Major League Baseball is a shameful, ignorant, propagandizing obscenity. And it needs to be stopped.
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