| Words: Cecil Frances Alexander, Music: Old English tune - All Things Bright and Beautiful .mp3 | ||
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I went to a few Tampa Bay Rays games last year, and I will go out and watch a basketball game with a friend from time to time.
However, I have always found excessive zeal for sports teams owned by rich people a little nauseating, plebeians dutifully buying up all the paraphernalia and lining the pockets of some scumbag who "always used to like baseball when I was a kid and always dreamed of owning my own black people... I mean team."Stating that zeal almost like a political perspective is an interesting twist. "SUPPORT THE RAYS" -- this is what it says on an auto mechanic's placard on MLK Avenue in St. Petersburg.
The basic idea here, I assume, is that the local economy depends on the success of this business enterprise/sports team. It's like a brainwashed feudal serf -- "We can only be strong if we all support our lord!"
The economy will collapse if we don't pour our money into the coffers of the Harperstown Wombats! Pour, pour, pour! Keep pouring until it starts to make sense! Until your wife loves you again! Until your life feels rich and meaningful! Here, have another pint of mead, whatever the hell this stuff is.