Glenn Beck, When The Fox

Glenn Beck, When The Fox The news that Glenn Beck Fox left for other projects to FOX, I suppose, is one of those things that just do not comment on in both directions, as someone who does not incite political violence in a sports site. But I can say this: under Beck is in the public eye, the less I hear about Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa relay Beck "restore honor" rally last year. This is not unalloyed good news.

Like Luke Scott's recent birther-flavored comments and, further back, Carlos Delgado's anti-war stance and the subsequent media hubbub, what bothered me most about the Beck/La Russa connection wasn't that baseball players have opinions, it's that baseball fans do. Sports communities like this one are themselves a social world, with positions and arguments and heated debates, but at their best there's always the underlying truism that, say, the people at Game Time are Blues hockey fans, and the people at Viva El Birdos, no matter what else they do in life, fans of Cardinals baseball.

When politics gets in an argument otherwise-innocuous that the social contract is broken. We are not only more sports fans are Democrats and Republicans and religious groups and atheists and one thing against another division, and is not something that Smalltalk related infrastructure is built to manage sports, like everyone else with a large family can confirm .

Good luck, Glenn Beck, but whatever you do with the rest of your life, please keep baseball out of it. places are like tables, arguing is fine, but politeness can be stretched permanently when it ceases to be food.