Again, it's just a game.

I link to Sports By Brooks for a couple of reasons.  One is the chicks, obviously.  The other is that Brooks has a lot of amusing and hard-to-find sports news and commentary. 

It's not common for him to write anything offensive or completely out-of-bounds.  But yesterday, he did just that when he blasted the Red Sox for allowing a movie crew to film a scene from 'Fever Pitch' after the final out of last year's deciding World Series game:

"I'm
no fan of the Yankees, but can you imagine George
Steinbrenner allowing that during the W.S. in Yankee
Stadium? That would be like filming Whoopi in "Sister
Act 2" during the Pope's funeral in the Sistine
Chapel."

Hardy-har-har.  I think that analogy is just a tad extreme, don't you?  Does he really think the final out of game 4 was as sacred a moment as any point during the Pope's funeral?  I'm sure some people feel that it was, but they'd be wrong.  As much as I wanted to see the Sox win it all -- and regardless of how silly it was for Sox management to allow that to happen -- it doesn't change this one thing: a baseball game is entertainment. 

It's only a game. 

A funeral is a funeral.  Most funerals are somber events, regardless of how little you believe in the religion of the person being laid to rest.  Comparing the two reflects not only a lack of class, but also that society's worship of sports has reached a point that rivals the psychosis of the most radical religious zealotry.

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