America's Pastime, Phillies, World Series

Should we put a Phillies cap on Billy Penn?



Baseball is America's pastime. I mean, besides drinking, driving, consuming, and eating. Why is baseball America's sport?



Well, according to a couple of sources, it mirrors the values of America:

Baseball seems to embody many of the values coming to dominate an urbanized
and industrialized America. A number of scholars have suggested that baseball
may be perceived as a sort of mirror in which values, power, politics, fashion,
class, economics, and race may be viewed in microcosm. In his study of A. G. Spalding and the rise of professional baseball in the late nineteenth century,
Peter Levine argues that the creation of professional baseball leagues reflected
the professionalization of American culture which occurred throughout the nation
as more white middle class reformers sought to impose some order upon the chaos
of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization. However, in his work on
baseball in the Progressive Era, Steven A. Riess asserts that while Progressives
may have regarded baseball as "the epitome of the finest American beliefs,
traditions, and values," the men who actually controlled the major leagues were
often more like machine politicians with profit motives.

So...race, economics, power, politics, gettin' down and dirty - baseball covers them all!!! No wonder its awesome.

So anyway, the Phillies are going to the World Series!! People were partying like there's no work tomorrow. Mobs in the street, like New Years. And for a good reason too, Philadelphia has had no champions for 25 years. Thats like a quarter of a century.

So do we adorn Billy Penn with Phillie regalia?

DON'T DO IT MAYOR NUTTER, DON'T DO IT.

Wanna know why?

Because. One Liberty Place is higher than Billy Penn, and he didn't like his view blocked. It didn't help either when he wore sports jerseys before. He HATES his view being blocked. But, now that theres a Billy Penn on top of the Comcast Building, Phillies are in the World Series. And they might just win it. So, why jinx it? I mean, come on, since Billy on the Comcast Center was up, Philly Soul won the indoor football Championship. If the Phillies win the World Series, Billy Penn might finally be happy.

I don't even really like baseball (and I have to root for the Yankees - New Yorker), but GO PHILS!!!