Mostly OT Re: Mariners and Brats (was Re: [Sca-cooks] regional potluck)

[afmurphy at juno.com]

Well, I didn't care about baseball when I was 16 either... I am now older
and wiser! I therefore know more about Pete Rose now than I did when he
was playing.

At least this child is here! Surely that indicates some thirst for
knowledge? (Or does it? I haven't been here long enough to know...)

And, Misha, we had a baseball commissioner (the last real one) who was a
former president of Yale.  It is not a mindless occupation, though I
agree that people have different tastes and interests.

Oh, food content - the last hot dog I ate was at Yankee stadium. (Was
taken by a cousin.) I don't like hot dogs. We can get other sausages at
Shea.

Anne




On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:09:40 -0400 "Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy"
<troy at asan.com> writes:
> XvLoverCrimvX at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Hmmmm, lets look at the facts why I don't know who Pete Rose is:
> >
> > 1. I'm 16 which means I know very little about things before
> 1985.
> > 2. I don't care for much about baseball especially old time
> baseball. I would
> > rather pay more attention to academics and figuring out formulas
> and stuff
> > than watching a boring 4 or how many hour game of baseball.
> > 3. Who cares about a disgraced baseball player?
>
> To paraphrase Robert B. Parker ["Who???"], those people so
> improperly
> raised as to have no interest at all in sports are more to be
> pitied
> than censured, as it is their parents' and guardians' fault, not
> theirs.
>
> Also, there's an unfortunate tendency (and note that I'm _not_
> accusing
> you of this; I know you're smarter than this) on the part of many
> with
> attitudes such as you've expressed, to assume that those who are
> interested in such comparative trivialities are at the full extent
> of
> their intellects, and couldn't possibly have much interest in
> academic
> material, formulae, etc. Baseball is generally more complex than a
> lot
> of computer programming, for example.
>
> The history of sports is part of our history, part of what makes us
> tick, etc. In its way, Rose's disgrace is perhaps as socially
> important
> to our faith in our icons, such as they are, as those of, say,
> Clinton
> or Nixon.
>
> FWIW, my reason for mentioning him was because he also had a
> reputation
> as a Hot Dog, or one who would make an easy play look ten times as
> difficult as it needed to be. In addition to the various other
> nicknames, such as the generally unnecessary Mr. Hustle. Boy, did
> he
> hustle to recover from slipping on that banana peel that he
> carefully
> placed ten feet away five minutes previous, to make that otherwise
> unremarkable catch...
>
>
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
>
> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre,
> 9/98
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