Red and Blue World Series?
Who would think that politics would so permeate our culture that even a sporting event would degenerate into a political argument? Well, in this year’s World Series, it has. The two teams, the San Francisco Giants and the Texas Rangers, come from two completely polarized cities, San Francisco and Dallas.
State legislation reflects the divide with San Francisco a major promoter of gay marriage and California’s avant-garde environmental legislation. Texas is all about oil, need I say more? Well, maybe a little. George W. Bush is the number one Texas Rangers fan.
The series starts tonight, and I’m rooting for the blue, San Francisco. It may be one of the few victories we win this year.
The article exploring this red/blue baseball divide also notes the mayors are big baseball fans and former players, with Dallas’s Tom Leppert being right-handed and Gavin Newsome being left-handed. Well, maybe you can take the analogy too far.
In any case, I’m looking for a spirited contest. Neither team has won a World Series before, and it will open tonight in San Francisco. You can expect frenzied rooting from both sets of fans. The two teams were underdogs in the ALCS and NLCS against the more experienced Phillies and Yankees, but that’s baseball.
