Statement From Insignificant MLB Fan In Response To 2021 MLB Owner's Lockout

NEW YORK - Dec. 3, 2021 - PRLog -- My name isn't important since I'm easily the most insignificant baseball fan. Yet, I been a fan for over 52 years and I have unconditional love for MLB owners, MLB players and all MLB fans. Unfortunately, most times, it is best not to tell people that you have unconditional love for them because they usually get scared and think that you want something from them. Frankly, most people are afraid and suspicious of unconditional love; therefore, you love such people without telling them. We don't have to "do" anything, and we don't have to call it anything.

Unconditional love is the energy that silently transfigures every situation. Baseball is my preferred distraction in a society that often idealizes the pleasureless (hard work, stoicism, self-sacrifice, restraint) and tends to condemn pleasure in most of its simpler forms, frequently even declaring them to be illegal. Fortunately, everything can be taken from MLB fans by it's owners and players except one thing: our attitude. The more emotional energy invested in baseball, the greater will be the feeling of loss and the greater the pain associated with the undoing of the bonds of dependence. Acknowledging and letting go of these feelings brings us up to courage and, with that, finally acceptance and an inner peacefulness. Believe it or not, even something as simple as the self distraction afforded to us by following our favorite sports team, apathy and depression are the prices we pay for having settled for and bought into our insignificance. It's what we get for having played the victim and allowed ourselves to be programmed as baseball fans. It's the price we pay if we needlessly choose to follow these labor negotiations on social media.

Actions like this is what results from resisting the part of ourselves that is loving, courageous, and great. Unfortunately, all that is good and bad is found in people. In America, we despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble of the money-making streets, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from $400 jerseys, box seat season tickets, the un-bribed soul, a virtuous indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly— in short, the moral ... continue reading...... https://patch.com/new-york/downtown-nyc/statement-mlb-fan...