Reflections of Me : Disgust. Is It A Virtue?
Well, been a while since I let my thoughts roam a bit. Been a bit under the weather, so to speak. But Spring approaches ( slowly, as it usually does for me ) and so much has happened, my steadily decreasing brain capacity simply refuses to keep up. Spring has always been the time when, no matter how bad things were, the optimist in me woke up and cheered. That hasn't happened this year. Major League Baseball continues to slide down the garbage-strewn ramp into nothing but business and the quest for more and more. More money, more offense, more effrontery to the rules that made it the greatest game on the planet. Not as if I hadn't seen it coming the past 50 years, but I deplore it. The game I grew to love, and grew up loving, has been taken from me as surely as my own youth and exuberance have been taken. It's change, and change is inevitable, but the conservative in me resists that change. ...