Subject: Re: it ain't the Yankees that need help
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 30 2000 - 15:01:33 GMT
Scottie B. said:
> I'll bet people can find lots of exceptions but, to me,
> the thought of Tom Hardy or Marcel Proust or Hank James
> or Evelyn Waugh or JP Sartre (OK, Camus used to play
> a bit of footer) or Lev Tolstoy or the Mann boys or
> Ginny Wolfe or - Jesus, I could go on all night - waving
> their rattles for Manchester United is something from
> Monty Python.
<suppressing a guffaw>
Very good. Well, I don't know about the others, but Virginia Woolf was a
crack, er, bowler? for her cricket team. (That's sort of like the role of
the pitcher in baseball, for all you North Americans.) If you read her early
short stories, you might find a "sticky wicket" reference or two.
But to address your question why it is that sports references keep peppering
modern day conversation? Why, it's mostly because we must have heroes,
methinks. Displaying some sort of prowess that the rest of us cannot match
and so admire. Think of all of those odes to the Greek heroes, he who was
such an excellent archer, that one who was a primo swordsman, etc. It's
happened forever-- modern folks just look to a Michael Jordan rather than a
Ulysses (who beat the pants off of everyone at that sports match on that
journey he took).
Perhaps it's time for some epic poetry on baseball. Any takers?
Regards,
Cecilia.
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