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I might have mentioned it before, but I absolutely love baseball. Minor league, major league, game at a company picnic, doesn’t matter.
Baseball is one of those sports that is great in the idea that you don’t even really need to pay attention to every single second of the game because the game will let you know when its time to pay attention.
One thing that I always associate with an organized baseball game is the national anthem.
To me, you really cannot have a baseball game without it. It’s part of the ceremony of a collection of people from all walks of life engaging in the group activity of watching an athletic contest.
That and it’s one of those tiny little ways that we get to show our gratitude to the people who came before us who are not with us anymore because they died in defense of our great nation.
I mean, the song is only a minute or two long. It’s not like when they ask you to stand for the national anthem at the beginning of a baseball game that it’ll be hours before you sit down.
What is a couple of minutes out of someone’s life to express gratitude towards the idea that we live where we live?
However, as we all know, in recent years the national anthem at sporting events has become the jumping-off point of which more liberal-minded sports figures to engage in protest with as many people watching as possible.
Now, I am all for protesting, but you have to do it the right way.
I have always been of the mind that a protest never works if you managed to look like an ass while you are doing it. Then you just look like a person trying to disrupt someone’s day for the sake of it.
That’s why I am so glad that some Major League Baseball teams are starting to flip the script on some players by making it a hard and fast rule that you must stand for the national anthem or risk getting benched for a game.
It should be a rule for every team, but at the very least the manager of the San Francisco Giants has enacted a rule that every player and coach on the team must be present on the field and standing for the national anthem at the start of every game.
It’s a simple matter of respect at the end of the day.
I mean, if you are making millions of dollars hitting a ball with a stick and can’t take two minutes to show gratitude towards the country that gave you that opportunity, that is pretty sickening and greedy.
