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<blockquote data-quote="Slartibartfast" data-source="post: 323934" data-attributes="member: 1981"><p>"Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings." - George Will. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"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. You know when a season starts that the best team is going to get beaten a third of the time, worst team’s going to win a third of the time, the argument, over 162 games is that middle third. So it’s a game that you can’t like if winning is everything…and democracy is that way, too." - you guessed it, George Will again.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>"I grew up in Champaign, Illinois, midway between Chicago and St. Louis. At an age too tender for life-shaping decisions, I made one. While all my friends were becoming Cardinals fans, I became a Cub fan. My friends, happily rooting for Stan Musial, Red Schoendienst and other great Redbirds, grew up cheerfully convinced that the world is a benign place, so of course, they became liberals. Rooting for the Cubs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I became gloomy, pessimistic, morose, dyspeptic and conservative...Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Cub fans" - guess who? :lol: :lol: :lol: </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>:lol!: :lol!: :lol!:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Slartibartfast, post: 323934, member: 1981"] "Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings." - George Will. "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. You know when a season starts that the best team is going to get beaten a third of the time, worst team’s going to win a third of the time, the argument, over 162 games is that middle third. So it’s a game that you can’t like if winning is everything…and democracy is that way, too." - you guessed it, George Will again. "I grew up in Champaign, Illinois, midway between Chicago and St. Louis. At an age too tender for life-shaping decisions, I made one. While all my friends were becoming Cardinals fans, I became a Cub fan. My friends, happily rooting for Stan Musial, Red Schoendienst and other great Redbirds, grew up cheerfully convinced that the world is a benign place, so of course, they became liberals. Rooting for the Cubs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, I became gloomy, pessimistic, morose, dyspeptic and conservative...Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be Cub fans" - guess who? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol!: :lol!: :lol!: [/QUOTE]
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