Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Baseball's International Evil Day Tomorrow


Actually, the announcements will probably start leaking out tonight:

Every July 2, baseball celebrates the buying and selling of 16-year-old Latino boys.

Its little version of pedophilia.

That's the day when the stool-sample analyses, the weight-gain supplements and -- most importantly -- the garbage bags full of money finally bear fruit.

The kids and their pimps -- excuse me, I meant scouts -- make millions, as a few physical mutants get plucked from herds of young boys who are as plentiful and disposable as corn.
For every $1 million dollar behemouth, there will be hundreds, thousands, pissed away in a plantation style system of really creepy pyschological and economic exploitation.
When a kid signs at 16, at what age did the temptation process begin?
When a kid signs at 16, what kind of personality is being rewarded?

When a kid signs at 16, just who are his guardians, and whom are they working for?
Aww, hell, why care? Let's just celebrate whatever Seabiscuit we sign... because, frankly, whenever the evil Yanks pull out their mighty wallet, the Gammonites go flat-out berserk. They rage about the big market Yankee unfairness and call for change.
If we buy every top prospect tonight -- fill the Gulf of Mexico with 16-year-old testosterone -- maybe somebody would take notice.

But we won't. Nope. We'll just sample a child here and there. Taste a few morsels from the Kiddie Buffet, fill our plate but not overflow it, and leave plenty for the other teams.
Don't wreck a good thing.

So... we'll all rejoice over our next Jesus Montero.

Or our next Jackson Melian.

But let's be straight about this:
The signing of 16-year-olds is sick, kinky, evil, creepy-porno, fucking sick. It makes the NBA's drafting of high school students -- a practice that was halted a few years back -- look benign.

Hello? Mainsteam media? Yoo-hoo! Anybody there?
Gammons, Madden, Kepner, Honest Abe... fer kricesakes, say something!
They're buying and selling 16-year-old boys!
Or is it just that they're Latinos?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

El Duque,

I'm having trouble figuring out how you really feel about this.