Well, it's that time of year again when baseball fans are all coming out of their seats...cheering on their favorite team....especially if you live in Dallas. The Rangers are on a roll! So, there's all this hubub about the Rangers and how great they're doing and how we need them to win...blah blah blah, yada yada yada. Not being a HUGE follower of baseball (football, basketball, soccer, you get the point) I needed to reach out to my authority on sports. (***SHOUT OUT TO SHARON DOSE!!!! Hey Girl!!! Love you long time!!!) Seeing as though the Rangers are doing really well, I figured that I needed to jump onto the "fair weather fan" wagon!!! So Sharon posts the other day that the Rangers won and that they have one more game to close out this round. My response...."Where? Then what?" It's just so complicated. Her response....and bare with me, all of you fellow non-sports addicts....."This series is the best of five, we lead the series 2-1, and then we play the winner of the Yankees and Tigers series, round two is a best of seven series and that decides the American league champ who will then play a best of seven series against the National league champ for the world series!!!!" REALLY? It's really that difficult? Come on...you're playing baseball...a game that all of these players have been playing for their WHOLE life. Why do you need SO many with SO many games? And the whole time they're getting paid. I have this conspiracy theory that the teams playing already know who is going to win. The teams all meet and have a "negotiation" of sorts and decide who the winner will be. After all, advertisers charge HUGE dollars for commercials during these series, so the longer they drag on, the more money they make. So there are "kick-back for the team that agrees to play long, but bite it in the end. It's a win-win for everyone involed! So the title of today's blog is "Baseball and Beauties." So you ask where the beauties come in? Well the beauties are NOT the baseball players, although some of them ARE beauties, but rather TRUE beauties.....Miss America, Miss USA and Miss Universe. Do they get a series? NO. There are so MANY differences that are just not fair. Being Miss America, Miss USA or Miss Universe is a contest too. Granted, there are beauty contests to get to the ultimate contest, but NOTHING on the scale of baseball.....AND they're not getting paid to get to the ultimate contest....AND they're going at it ALONE. There is no Team Texas or Team California....it's just ONE person...make it or break it. When the ONE beauty DOES win, it's hardly a prize, compared to the World Series winner....and the World Series doesn't have ONE winner....the whole team wins. If you REALLY think about it, it's NOT FAIR AT ALL. Here these poor girls are made to bare almost everything and get in a bathing suit on national TV and strut their stuff in high heels. You would think that just MAYBE there should have to be ONE game where the baseball players play in a bathing suit, so that we could judge them on how fit they are. Also, the "beauties" have to buy a gown (that they pay for themselves) just for a small chance to win the ultimate prize. With baseball, the players are given their uniforms (provided by the team) and they slide in the dirt and make a mess of them. Maybe one of the judging criteria for baseball should be; which team has the cleanest uniforms at the end of the game. After all, poise is part of a beauty contest and if you fall, you don't get extra points....you lose points. So, maybe a deduction for sliding and maybe more points for staying on your feet and running a little faster. On the flip side, maybe we should make the beauties run in heels and see who wins. If a beauty contestant has a bad day...so sad, too bad. If a baseball player has a bad day he can sit out the game OR just wait until the next game when he's doing better. No pinch hitters or stand ins for the beauties. So is it fair? NO it's not. Baseball gets WAY more coverage and THEY'RE getting paid to play a game. It's ridiculous....confusing and ridiculous. Grow up already. Get a real job....and do it right THE FIRST TIME...not best of 5, best of 7, best of whatever. Do it ONCE and DO IT right. FINAL THOUGHT....Where the REAL discrimination comes in, is in the category of spitting. With baseball, it almost seems like a prerequisite to spit...and spit A LOT....either just saliva....or the residual from chewing tobacco (in essence, being able to smoke on the job!) UGH. Gross. A beauty CANNOT spit, and it is really frowned upon (on OR off the stage...during or not during competition). A true beauty ALWAYS swallows. ; )
WOW. Some things are just NOT FAIR.
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