Defending Elizabeth Warren and the other Mass Dems.

Many folks are making much of this:

Listen, not all of us get choked up at the thought of a bloody sock, I get that. So cut Lizzy some slack. And to you Red Sox owners out there, and Red Sox fans who might not vote Dem because of this flub, remember this….

You built a World Series Team out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved your team to Fenway on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired baseball players the rest of us paid to bring here from Latin America. (And taught them English, since Latin is not the official language of MLB) You were safe at home plate because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at the ballpark, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a great team and it turned into something terrific, or a World Series Champion and ripped the still beating heart from Yankees fans? God bless. Keep a huge banner in the rafters. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next Japanese guy who comes along and can pitch a gyro ball, or a guy who at pitch 101 decides to do his best T-Ball imitation while Grady Little stares slack-jawed from the bench…..

Category: Politics