Reply #3: Speaking as a Sox fan... [View All]

[regnaD kciN]

...I honestly don't care.

The fact is, if you're going to rely on professional athletes for political guidance, you're a hopeless case, anyway. Most of them are pretty right-wing. And why not? You are talking about a group of people who, by and large, have gotten by on physical gifts and instinct rather than sustained logical thought. The vast majority of star athletes who attended college skated by on a steady diet of just-easy-enough courses to meet the minimum NCAA eligibility requirements, and dropped out as soon as their playing time was over (which, in many cases, meant after they jumped to the pros following their second or third season). Baseball players are likely to be even less formally-educated than that, since most sign with a pro team just after high school. For all that, they're paid well almost from the start, and a player in "the bigs" who manages to stay there for a number of years is guaranteed, barring any foolish investments, to be financially set for life.

Think about it: physically strong, not too educated, rich. Why would anyone expect them not to be Republicans?

But, then again, Hollywood is supposed to be filled with leftists, and, while I certainly enjoy the pronouncements of a Tim Robbins or Barbara Stresiand, I don't look to them for profound political analysis, either.