Apparently, the intent to label someone with a label that you think they will detest is more important than having a discussion of baseball legends. It no longer works. Here is a simple fact. All learned and intelligent men (and women) support rebellion against a tyranny. You wonder why a country founded on revolution would be opposed to the revolution of another country simply because someone embellished its proletariat with a word like communism or socialism while ignoring the fact that it was their tyranny that had made the revolution necessary.
Have you ever read the history of pre-revolution Russia? Are you aware of the difference between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks? The result was still a tyranny, but it did get the people fed, and it did educate a large number of people, which the preceding regime had not. The question often becomes one of why we didn't help Castro and Ho Chi Minh when they asked for help against a rich power group that benefited only the rich while the public wallowed in poverty and ignorance. Was it because someone got away with labeling them as communists when all they originally professed was a need for independence. After all that long battle against the communist powers that emerged as the victors, we now have normalized relations with both, as well as with Chile, who probably hates us more than the other two combined because of Allende. Did you wish to support the warlords of China or the Shah of Iran when the people insisted that we get rid of them? When we get in the way of the will of the people, they ultimately win, and we rant about how evil the world is for killing off the tyrants who had kept them in depravity. How many more monarchies do you want us to support? Is it worth the life of your son to protect the next King of the middle east or warlord of some obscure nation that you didn't know existed until someone said it was vital to our national security?
Support baseball, not war.
