2011
Baseball and broken windows
Sandlot baseball. Now those were the days. Kids on a vacant lot tossing the ball around, smacking it over the fence right into the Grinch of the neighborhoods living room window. That’s the fastest, by the way, any kid will ever run in their entire life. You think Usain Bolt is fast now. You should have seen him after he crashed one into the neighbors beautiful bay windows. So it all got me to thinking, since Albert Pujols seems to be hitting homer after homer, just which neighbors are going to be sweeping up the glass. And I arrived at this. The horrific hit that took place in last nights Canucks-Bruins Stanley game sickened me. There simply is no place in any sport for the kind of cheap shot that forced Boston’s Nathan Horton to be carried off on a stretcher. It reminded me of Todd Bertuzzi’s hit years ago on Avalanche player Steve Moore. Until the NHL actually kicks a player out of hockey for life and the guy is found guilty on attempted murder charges we are going to be subjected to nauseating moments like the one last night. Let me know what you think!
