Real Americans - those of us who support and promote America and American values - feel pride in taking an active role in the most unique country in the world. We Americans are an integral part of this great country, therefore pride is appropriate.
Dafuck does it have to do with a
baseball game?
I wasn't addressing the sport of baseball and neither was the comment I responded to. Read more carefully.
It's the whole
point of the OP article. Read more comprehensively.
Here we go folks. Another Anti-America rant in order to transition this country into socialism. The ungrateful librats prefer to destroy American tradition for the sake of feelings and atheism. I'm not into religion but I love my country and honor our patriotic values. American apologist prefer to ban our beautiful culture but avoid trashing Muslims chanting to Allah in public prayers and foreigners patrotic traditions during their parades in America.
If you don't love what this country was built on or stands for, then go join ISIS and keep their sharia law. They seem to share your same hate.
I'm not a Christian but I recognize that Christianity played a big part in the creation of America and that it is the dominant religion today. I'm ok with that. I'm secure in my own beliefs so I don't need to bring down Christianity to feel good about myself or to keep from feeling threatened. If people want to put their trust in a god then how on Earth is that my problem. I'm comfortable with our separation of Church and State though I think it's gone way too far of late but if you're a Moslem looking to infect our legal system with Sharia then that's a whole other matter.
Again --- the OP is about forced jingoism
at baseball games. That's got zero to do with "religion".
I already called this misdirection out in post Two. And Seven. Last week.
A) No one is forced to go to a ball game.
B) No one is forced to sing a song
C) A ******* song hardly indicates extreme nationalism. It's a song.
A) No one anywhere made that claim. Ever. Irrelevant red herring.
B) If I go to a Cleveland Indians game ---- and I'm there for the Cleveland Indians ---- and the entire stadium is directed to stand up and sing for the Cleveland Cavaliers ---- what the **** does that have to do with
a baseball game??
Even that has got something to do with the local area. Can you show us the line in GBA where it says something about how they should pitch to Manny Machado?
C) It doesn't, huh.
-------- Then what's its
purpose? What's the song about? *******? OK let's stipulate that the song is about *******. What does ******* have to do with
a baseball game?
How 'bout this --- at the top of the third inning the entire first base side of the lower deck has to recite "'Twas the Night Before Christmas". Why not? It's "tradition", right?