With the advent of the 2015 baseball season at
hand, I would like to share a quote by the baseball philosopher George Will on
the position of baseball as a true democracy's sport.
Baseball suits the
character of this democratic nation. Democracy is government by persuasion.
That means it requires patience. That means it involves a lot of compromise.
Democracy is the slow politics of the half-loaf. Baseball is the game of the
long season, where small, incremental differences decide who wins and who loses
particular games, series, seasons. In baseball, you know going to the ballpark
that the chances are you may win, but you also may lose; there's no certainty,
no given. You know when a season starts that the best team is going to get
beaten a third of the time, the worst team's gonna win a third of the time. The
argument over 162 games: that middle third. So it's a game that you can't like
if winning's everything. And democracy's that way too.
My friends may
disagree but as a wise man once said, "Amicus Plato, sed magis amica
veritas."
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