Word: rockers
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...most extraordinary moment, however, came late in the game. Down by a few runs, the Sox loaded the bases. Rocker had already come out again to warm up with a very good possibility that he might be called out to finish the inning. The fans in the bleachers knew this, and everyone seemed more concerned that Rocker might make his appearance than they were that the Sox had the chance to tie up the game...
Then, after the pitcher had walked in a run, there were few tense moments of uncertainty, and finally Rocker was called out to pitch. You know, I have never followed baseball religiously, but in my youth, I used to attend a lot of Cubs games during the summertime. When I was probably six or so, I watched Pete Rose tie Ty Cobb's long-standing record for the most number of hits in a career, and I can say without doubt, that that event no more than ties for most intense moment of sheer jubilation I have ever witnessed from...
...other was when John Rocker walked in the first batter he faced and was pulled from the game before he could finish with the second...
When I thought back upon it later the inability of John Rocker to keep the Sox from scoring, the pandemonium of the crowd when he was yanked, Rocker putting his head down in failure as he left the field it all seemed the stuff of WWF wrestling, a scripted moment of tension, failure, and the ensuing celebration of good triumphing over evil...
Indeed, when you think about it, the treatment of John Rocker by just about everyone provides an interesting commentary on our American social psychology. Because he has come across publicly as a backward, bigoted, homophobic, fascist jerk, John Rocker is, par excellance, a politically correct villain. Everyone is allowed--and even welcomed--to hate him (check out www.rockersucks.com if you don't believe me). And yet, as opposed to the WWF, where hating our enemies is a guiltless pleasure, Rockers villainy begs us pause. John Rocker may be a character, but he isn't playing one. He is a real...