ktw@whuxi.UUCP (WOLMAN) (01/10/85)
I am a relatively new contributor to net.sport.baseball, but
gathered it was a meeting place where fans of the game could
argue, compare notes, root, etc. It didn't occur to me that
someone would join the act with such wishes as (paraphrase)
may the Mets perish in a plane crash! Thank God the wisher of
the wish does not have affective dreams (see Ursula LeGuin).
Whoever you may be: baseball is a game. Emphasis is on the
last word of the preceding sentence. It's a wonderful game,
true. It's the athletic equivalent of chess, true. It inspires
passions, also true. But it is not sufficient cause for
turning this net into the equivalent of the grandstand at
Yankee Stadium after everyone's had a few brews too many. That,
by the way, is not part of fan-dom, either.
The Colt Peacemaker:
--
Ken Wolman
Bell Communications Research @ Livingston
[now at] lcuxc!kenw
(201) 740-4565
("My doctorate's in Literature, but that feels like a pretty
good pulse to me. . . .")