Military Appreciation

saturday evening C and i walked down to the padres game. the rockies were in town, so i was mildly interested.

unbeknownst to us it was military night.

there are a couple of things worth saying here. one is that there's no camo in baseball. ever. for whatever reason, the padres thought it would be cool to wear tan camo baseball jerseys as a show of support. it looked like the players had sneezed out of the their necks and all over their shirts.

the second thing is that, really, honestly, is this in any way supportive of the troops? just wear a goddamn yellow ribbon -- or (and call me crazy here), buy armor for the troops. i'm admittedly anti-war and anti-violence in general, but if we can't yank ourselves out of this crap-hole, let's at least do everything in our power to protect our troops. i see no point in going through the motions and pretending to give a shit, then not making any real sacrifice. i'm gonna guess that the good folks getting shot at and dodging bombs and such don't give a shit if a crappy franchise wears camoflage for them.

ugh. the irony is that MLB players, and certainly MLB owners, belong to the class of tax-payers george w. bush insists on giving a break. how about instead of wearing camoflage, voluntarily nudge your federal tax rate up to about 40%?