Spurts

[RICHARD ROMEO]

Kinda feel off-put being a sports watcher from some of the sports 
rantings.  I think what sports  particuarly the pro variety has lost 
(like everything else) is its mythological underpinnings, its sense of 
somehow being really important, or different from the harsh world out 
there.  My Dad when he speaks of baseball when he was growing up is 
mighty different from my experience now.  My point is one can still 
experience the joy of any game between the white lines (no pun intended 
there) but as for pennant races, statistics, and such , well they're not 
so important anymore.  To put all sports watchers into this mean, 
snarling, drooling group of androids sounds frankly like calling all 
Germans Nazis (current debate nothwistanding), etc. (many though they're 
are)

Isn't criticism always better coming from someone who loves what they 
crtiticize, to see it become something better?  You guys out there who 
don't like sports and your sociological spewings, OK I respect your 
opinion, but since you don't watch, why are you so interested in taking 
sides?

Hell I hate ballet (love football) but I'm not gonna scream at the 
ballerinas to get a life...



Richard Romeo

Coordinator of Cooperating Collections

The Foundation Center-NYC

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