Will Baseball Leave Us?
Looking at the end
It’s 2030; ten-year-old Dag Willikins picks up a brownish-white ball with red thread around it. He looks up at his dad with a curious look and says, “Dad, what is this?” as he examines the worn-out logo.
Dad looks back at him, nods his head, and with a smirk, he starts, “You see son, once upon a time, there were these great heroes that depended on people to keep them on their financial pedestals, and they kept letting the people down. So the people ripped the pedestals out from underneath them.”
“That sounds violent.” The son replies.
“It was heartbreaking, it was called baseball, but it had morphed into something else completely. No longer a game, but instead a battle of control over something that they couldn’t control anyway.”
Dag looks down at the ball in his hand, realizing that it is junk; he lets it drop behind him. The ball rolls off the side of the gravel walkway and into a ditch as the father and son walk on.
The death of baseball. Let’s hope it never comes to that, but it starts with those who control the game acting like they care about it more than they care about themselves.
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