Buck Rogers, MLB

Here are two interesting hires by MLB announced in last Friday’s Transaction notices in the Tribune, a guy as “senior vice president of games and virtual reality” and a woman as senior vice president of marketing.  And all this time I thought baseball was an activity grounded in the here and now, intensely physical and nothing if not three-dimensionally real.

But whatever realm the American pastime is entering, a male will basically be in charge.  A woman can market what the guy’s up to, but she still can’t play the game in this realm or the virtual next.  This isn’t the kind of tradition that a hip and relevant national pastime ought to be associated with.  But I’m just an old bird.