One Down, One to Go

 If you want to see what’s up with America, there are two places to check.  The first is baseball, as in Jackie Robinson.  The second is the armed forces, as in President Harry Truman’s desegregation of the military, occurring fifteen months after Robinson broke the color line.

And now we have First Lt. Shaye Haver and Capt. Kristen Griest, the first women ever to make it through the Army’s Ranger School training program.  Griest answered the question of lowered standards this way:  “No woman I know wants to go to Ranger School if they change the standards, because then it degrades” what the program stands for.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say there are probably just as many women who feel the same way about playing professional baseball.  I wonder if Haver and Griest would consider trying out.  I know a few teams way short on talent right now.