Who killed our love for International sport ?
Tonight is the final of the World Cup of Baseball in San Diego.
Tonight, we, the creators of Baseball are just fans watching on and rooting for who? Up to the time of the first pitch by Romero of Cuba , we could not raise our interest to decide whether to hate the black boys from Communist Cuba in RED or hate (a favorite word of the RED states) the folks we used to call ‘Japs’.
It must be the first time , in my life , we as Americans with the pale white skin , get to HATE Black people and Communists in one hateful swing.
The Sports journalists ALL believe that as trained monkeys, our love for Baseball is centered not on the GAME, but only the sport played by our favorite teams or National team.
America has become the only country in the world , that worships the GAME and not the SPORT. Someone or some group has stragetically killed our appreciation for the beauty of any sport unless an American is participating or in a winning position.
Every country has a “ pastime” but the followers and supporters of their respective national favorite sport , become lovers of the beauty of the game and will show deep interest if a national or representative of a well known team shows up to play their team or engage in a world competition.
The Football (soccer ) World Cup competition is scheduled for Germany, in June this year. The Germans love for the sport and respect for the game will reflect in their national attention to every game in that month long competition. In the USA we will not have the ability to LOVE the sport sufficiently to want to see the performances of the athletes as they display their skills.
In fact the Morons in the sports media has destroyed our respect for the performance of the athlete if he is not participating in a sport loved by our famous sports journalists.
In most cases these sports Journalists NEVER played any sport and are not trained as athletic performancers to appreciate other athletes’ effort despite the built- in competitiveness.
The best example of the destruction of AMERICAS respect for international athletes and international sports is the work done on the Olympics movement, by the Network Television corporations such as NBC , ABC and CBS. These major media houses , having acquired the Rights to Broadcast the Olympics worldwide took the opportunity to ONLY promote the AMERICAN athlete at the Olympics to dismay and astonishment to the other performing athletes and fans ALL over the world .
This single act helped to destroy the sacred Olympic spirit of highlighting the athletic performance of the world’s best athletes , men and women.
So the American fan has been desensitived to be passionate about a game that does not have their athlete involved. So they will give a lukewarm applause to the Williams sisters, in tennis, but a resounding ovation to a Russian without respecting the art and beauty of the way the game is played.
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