1000 pirates fans walked out of the Pirates game in protest yesterday at PNC Park. Many of the fans wore green, to symbolize the $200 million of taxpayer money spent on the new ball park. They are upset over 15 years of losses, bad trades, and what they see as mismanagement. Some people who control broadcasts attempted to put a bad spin on this, as if this is some blight to Pittsburgh. SHHHHH don't report it, don't show it....don't even talk about it and maybe it will go away.
I was suspicious of that mentality from the start. It's news, number one. Number two... which is MY take on all this, it is ...... GREAT. 1000 people care. They are fans. The biggest threat to the ballteam itself is not silencing those who disapprove, or trying to shield the world from its plight, the real threat is indifference.
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I was suspicious of that mentality from the start. It's news, number one. Number two... which is MY take on all this, it is ...... GREAT. 1000 people care. They are fans. The biggest threat to the ballteam itself is not silencing those who disapprove, or trying to shield the world from its plight, the real threat is indifference.
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The Sunday Morning Muse is a new Goosepath regular commentary. Views expressed are purely those of the Goosepath and are not necessarily amusing, factual or unbiased. They are also not illegal, immoral or fattening, and may be quoted freely to people who may or may not understand their intended content. Views are subject to change at any time. Terms and conditions may or may not apply.
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"Without dissidence there is no America."
--Studs Terkel
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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