Baseball games are not inherently about ideas.
On Oct 7, 2008, at 10:18 AM, arcman210 wrote:
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Jersey Shore John
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Baseball is not inherently about communicating ideas like music
> is,
> > especially folk music. Bad analogy.
> >
>
> So athletes cant have opinions too? You're saying only "artists" are
> the enlightened ones who have ideas? I don't need to know how to
> play a guitar to speak my mind. I don't play an instrument or an
> organized sport, so I'm not taking either side. But like musicians
> and celebrities, athletes have the spotlight too... they do talk
> shows and interviews, they can talk politics if they want, and some
> do... but most of the time they keep their mouth shut.
>
> The point is that I pay to go to a baseball game to see baseball, and
> I pay to go to a concert to hear music. If I want to pay to go see
> politics, I'll buy a ticket to a political rally.
>
> Springsteen (and EVERY other musician) absolutely has the right to
> say whatever he wants at his shows... they're his shows after all...
> but the fact that he chooses to think he knows it all and that
> everyone in the crowd agrees with him just isn't the right thing to
> do, in my opinion.
>
>
>
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