I have no one to blame
but myself. If I didn’t read the New
York Times, I wouldn’t get irritated by it.
No, Friday’s sports’ section online would’ve gone unread, with my
happiness left intact (maybe). Then
again, Tyler Kepner’s column was a textbook example of why so many people hate
the East Coast. Personally, I don’t mind
the area, it’s the people.
Take Kepner, writing
about the recent Yankees-Red Sox series that saw lots of action with fists as
well as gloves and bats. Wow, like that
never happens between the White Sox and Royals.
Oh, but it’s ever so different when the combatants are the Red Sox and
Yankees, baseball’s “two glamour franchises,” according to Kepner. From the lofty vantage point of Times Square,
it’s good for the game when the New York and Boston rosters are loaded with
talent that’s not too fond of the other team.
“Purists love seeing
the Kansas City Royals and the Houston Astros in the World Series,” writes
Kepner with a condescension he doesn’t even bother to hide. Oh, yes, let the little guys in flyover land
win once in a while. “But when the
Yankees and the Red Sox are this good—and the Angels’ Shohei Ohtani captivates
fans with his two-way magic in greater Los Angeles—the sport thrives on a
bigger scale.”
That’s Goliath talking,
or a shill for all things plutocratic.
Give me David any day, from the South Side most of all.
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