How come I had to take a drug test when I applied for a job at Blockbuster, but when they talk about testing baseball players, they start blithering about privacy, and getting a knock on the door at Thanksgiving, asking them to piss in a cup?
NPR's baseball fetish really annoys me; it seems like they always have some old guy going on about the "poetry" and "zen" of the game. I've found more zen playing Candyland. If you like the game, then enjoy it, but don't try to wrap it up in quasi-mysticism in an effort to justify your enjoyment.
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Baseball is something that I appreciate on a cultural level much more than on a sporting level. (Of course, we all know how little I care about sports.) A good baseball movie like, say, Major League or The Natural can do more for my spirits than anything shy a night in the pub. Rather silly, I guess, but I think it's the easily-visualized goal aspect.
And can I just say that they do a lot deeper drug test when you apply at Blockbuster than when you're being checked up by MLB? How ridiculous.
Technically, I have yet to join MLB, but I'm sure it's just a matter of time... Hey, I'm sure I'm in better shape than Cecil Fielder ever was.
I think the pastoral myth that surrounds baseball really gets on my nerves. That's what all my complaints amount to; when I complain about NPR's baseball fetish, I say the same stuff as when I'm complaining about NPR running a commentary about some guy blithering on about "grandmar-mar's rhubarb pie". That was actually a piece they ran. I distrust ruralism, and baseball is a rural game.
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