Share in sorrow or glory as the day decides. Sports is our great teacher. Offering us lessons that guide us from a young age for the rest of our lives. Lessons about courage and grit, the importance of team work and diligence. How to play like a champion, even in a loss. Sports has been at the center of american understanding about race, immigration, religion, and meritocracy. The Baseball Playoffs begin tonight and from Jackie Robinson to sandy koufax to clementy, children learned what it mean to be a Good American watch these figures give their all in the field of play. So why is it that sports today seems to be a place of division not unity . Something used to break us further apart not bring us together . When did competition become such a bad thing . 20 years ago after 9 11 getting back to sports was incredibly important it wasnt just a sign that america was going to continue. It was a sign that we were confident and unafraid. Eight years ago tears turned to cheers and roars when
Cheers and roars when david ortiz told those cowardly marathon terrorists who city of boston was. the same motivation exists today as we were first coming back from lockdowns we all joined the crowds of fans whose proud voices carried our national anthem. but this creates an extreme division between what we re told and what we see on the screen. you probably heard on sunday dr. anthony fauci talking about whether we can have christmas gatherings or not. well, he did that on cbs. between this and this. as much as media fear mongers decry these college and pro-football games as super spreader events the evidence showed they don t have a leg to stand on in. recent weeks, the use of sports to divide us has moved to individual players and their perm beliefs about vaccination. nba players like jonathan isaac and draymond green mounted eloquent defenses on the right to make their own medical decisions making it clear that, yes, they have taught this through much to the frustration of the over
Pay you the compliment of returning mutual hatred. your team simply not good enough for my team and fan base to hate. [laughter] will: i maintain those divisions. those healthy guesses within sports. what s going on different economic strata and different geopolitical ideas as well it also elevates everything we think of and what we line nice as virtue. i know clay and i both have sons and we have talked about the way we want to raise our boys and sports is the prism through which we teach those lessons. why is atlantic corrupted? i do believe that sports media is probably at the center of this there is no more mono litt thickly sports than sports media. it has no room for diversity of thought. the oil and gas industry is not as reliably conservative as sports media is as reliably left. and i think that, honestly, sets
Ecosystem in china. stepping up to the plate it try to keep those jobs here at home is representative hagedorn of minnesota. tell me a little bit what s going on here. hey, ben, it s great to be with you here tonight. as you said sports is a company makes all the batting helmets for major league baseball players and some composite softball bats located down in caledonia a town of 2800. they are owned partly by rawlings and major league baseball has a share as well. for whatever reason they decided they want to close the plant down and ship most of those jobs to communist china it doesn t make any sense to us. it s been a great company for 20 years. excellent jobs. it s just it s really going to be a tough thing for our community and we are appealing to mlb to change their mind. ben: one of the things that we have learned other the years is that with exporting these jobs to communist china we have ended up importing not just their cheap goods but also their values as well.
These creative cleats honoring recently deceased comedian norm mcdonald. the legendary comic was known for his colorful snl characters including turd ferguson. great joe, by the way. i think we need to you on snl, variety of voices there. if fans turn to places like the met gala to look at creative outfits and nfl fans look to the nfl and what i respect so much about athletes is a lot of times they use their creativity and their cleats to pay a much to someone who is recently tasked with the big event. out of back in june and a lot of athletes came out in support of all of the victims of 9/11 with their cleats and this is just another instance, when you hear the phrase it s more than sports, this is what people are talking about. norm mcdonald, still the best news host not named bret baier in my opinion. before the raiders and chargers