Political Correctness is Killing Baseball
Believing the worst possible thing about everything and everyone might not be the best way to attract fans.
Nobody likes political correctness.
It doesn’t matter what side of the political coin you’re on. The right often speaks out against it, and Bill Maher, who may have started the trend for late night talk shows to lean to the left, christened his show that began the movement “Politically Incorrect.”
Political correctness becomes extremist witch hunting.
That’s the feeling surrounding the fan who flashed a gesture behind sportscaster Doug Glanville’s back while he was giving a report during a May 7 broadcast of the Chicago Cubs — Miami Marlins game.
The gesture was, depending on your point of view, either an “okay” symbol (perhaps telling Glanville he was doing a good job or that the Cubs were “okay”), trying to be modestly funny by playing the unfunny circle game, or, if you prefer to think along these lines, a symbol of white supremacy.
And so for a barely noticeable gesture, the Cubs have jumped to conclusions and banned the fan for life.
Its’ uncertain how one goes about banning a fan for life from Wrigley Field. Do they, from this day forward through the next 100 years, show his picture to ticket takers and say…
