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“BASEBALL…REACTION”
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What I see in baseball at this hour…How I reacted.

PADRES FLASHBACK…..25th Anniversary of what we saw on TV.  Olympic Stadium-Montreal…meaningless August game, Padres-Expos.  Not meaningless to us.  Tony Gwynn, 3000th-career hit.  Oddly did it before very few fans who still followed the Expos.  Did alot of great things on not so great Padres teams over the years, but what a brilliant person and player.

DODGER BLUE…If you saw it, you probably got choked up.  If you didn’t see it, then you should ‘Google it’.  Freddie Freeman’s heart-wrenching 7-minute press conference of the timeline of the near death of his 3-year old son, afflicted by a Virus that left him in ICU for  8-days on a ventilator-near death.  Maximus is home now in recovery but faces a long road back from the full paralysis that attacked his immune system.  Freeman wept, told the story, wept again.  Then at home plate, an outpouring standing ovation from Dodgers Stadium, a salute from the Phillies and the umpires.  It was moving, honest, loving.  Unless you have lost a child or had one at death’s door step, you cannot imagine what Freeman and his wife went thru.  Prayers work.

SAD SO LONG…He was a so-so journeyman ballplayer.  He was gay.  No one knew till he had retired.  Then they knew when MLB hired Billy Bean, the outfielder, to become  VP-diversity.  He toured major league clubhouses, spoke openly about homosexuality, and about how important it was to accept the lifestyle.  He was sincere, honest, intellectual, and courageous.  A person of conviction willing to help so many others.  He opened the door that had been in the shadows.  Bean died Tuesday from acute leukemia at (59).  Taken too soon for someone who did so good for major leaguers and minor leaguers who were gay.

SO BAD..How could an MLB owner, with a track record of success in sports, own something so bad?  The White Sox, threatening the all time record of 23-losses in a row, held by the Phillies, are owned by Jerry Reinsdorf.  Once upon a time, owner of the ‘Chicago Bulls’ in the Air Jordan era.  And he owns this product on the field after all these years.  Threatening to bust the NY Mets all time worst record (40-120) set in the Casey Stengel expansion ‘Let’s Go Mets’ days.  Egad.

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