Thursday, October 4, 2007
i'm sorry. it's not ethical--well, maybe it is
I'm sorry, but I just cannot bring myself to respect the NY Yankees in anyway. not only do they cheat. but they also steal. check out this week's Hayer score in the SF Foghorn for more thoughts on the corrupt A.Rod. Are there ethics in baseball? Damn right there are. Maybe there are even more ethics in baseball (think buying, stealing, cheating, and drug endoseing) than probably in any sport. I could even Potter Box it (Robertson... is there a potential mid-term question?)... maybe, the ethical issues surrounding the tactics of baseball. Now, if I were a pro-baseballer and I'm going to get tagged out while attempting to run to 2nd base.... I could either slap away the ball like an unethical coward OR I could "take it like a man" and hold my head high. I think the Red Sox stand for the unity that our government tries to strongly impose unpon us post 9/11. We are a Red Sox Nation! A Red Sox World! We are unified by one team, regardless of individual color or race or political belief. Interesting how a team, or even a sport, can do that... similar to soccer and the rest of the world. Is Baseball America's soccer? Nonetheless, regardless of the playoff's outcomes, I support two teams: The Red Sox and who ever beats the Yankees.
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He he he. Wait. That's not enough.
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Good fun, passionate RedSoxer. But *for credit* we need some lovely ethical dilemmas. An interesting question might be how the sports media -- many of whom depend on the goodwill of their sources -- should report blatant wrong doing, such as sign stealing in football and baseball. My uninformed guess is that big city press are more "ethical" in the sense they probably report such news straight up but less "ethical" in that they may manufacture controversy and criticize athletes/managers etc. unfairly because they are in competitive media markets and need to make noise to get attention. I suppose we could talk about the Oklahoma State player who was spotted being "hand fed" by his mom and the newspaper column soon after in which a sports columnist use this observation as part of her criticism of his toughness. So bring it back to journalism.
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