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I like baseball — I don’t love it. I never had the emotional/sentimental connection most kids experience when they are young and they play catch with their fathers. I passed a football with my dad. I shot hoops in the driveway with my dad. As for baseball, I always liked it, but I never felt a rapport with the sport itself.

I enjoyed the steroid era. I enjoyed watching all the home runs and admiring all the jacked arms. I also thoroughly enjoyed the St. Louis Cardinals and their World Series run in 2006. I feel passionate about the Cardinals, but I merely ignore the rest of the league for one team.

After a couple of months of having absolutely no headlines besides ones regarding Albert Pujols and Buster Posey having his season ended, the new hot topic is David Ortiz and his little bat flip against the New York Yankees. Joe Girardi is butthurt, and apparently the rest of the Yankees are, too.

This little ‘bat flip’ is being used by the media to use as an excuse for this little rivalry. As a non-Sawx/Yaynkz fan, I stopped caring about the rivalry after Johnny Damon went to New York. After the Sawx and Yaynkz play 500 times a year, I forget that there’s any hatred between the two teams…

But this bat flip is a headline?

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By Troy Sparks – Jabberhead, SJ Contributing Author

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