Redleg Nation · Sep 23, 2021
Baseball Is Life: Don’t Sell the Team, Bob
When the slogan is trending on Twitter, the billboard GoFundMes have started, and the pre-postseason attendance is below 10,000 people in a 43,500 capacity stadium, the citizenry has had enough.
Our current local hero is a man who sat in the Diamond Seats, the land of the well-heeled, the bucket listers, and the corporate beneficiaries. This man sat behind home plate and did something people here just don’t do unless we have had it: On Tuesday night, he expressed an opinion, and he did it off the Internet. His “SELL THE TEAM, BOB” sign appeared behind an opposing batter on the game broadcast before the feed abruptly changed to a different camera.