Enough With The Political Correctness

I've never been a big fan of political correctness, in fact I think it's one of the reasons this world (or at least North America) is in the shape that it's in. So let's take today's story for a second. The Texas Rangers set a Major League Baseball record last night. For the first time in 110 years a team has scored 30 runs. The Rangers in fact beat the Baltimore Orioles last night 30-3. For all you non baseball fans, trust me, they pretty much demolished the Orioles. Ok, to make things clearer, the Rangers ended up with more runs (30) than outs (27 = 3 outs every inning for nine innings) Now, many politically correct individuals will tell you that there should be a mercy rule in effect so that play is stopped after a certain amount of runs are scored or that the team scoring all the runs should lighten up on the opposing team. Guys like Don Cherry and the likes will tell you it's "good sportsmanship"to do that...hogwash! Sometimes in life things don't necessarily go the way you wanted them to. There are disappointments. How can we expect our children to learn that life isn't always easy when they're getting destroyed in a softball or t-ball game and one of the teams is told not to try so hard? Not to try so hard? I don't know about you but I was always taught to go hard or go home. So the Orioles got their asses handed to them last night (twice actually), I'm sure they thought long and hard about how poorly they played but you know what, they have to do it all over again today with another team. They have to refocus and go out and play their hearts out. Reminds me of a song from a while back by Chumbawamba. It went, "I get knocked down but I get up again you're never gonna keep me down" just like in life you may get bruised but never beaten.

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