Waiting for someone to do some real analysis of this. Here’s what I see, as a simple Chicagoan who shared in the immense joy of the success of these kids.
- The coach from Evergreen Park is a tiny, bitter, ugly little man
- All of these youth are from Chicago
- Geography is often destiny. We have to break that
- People bend rules all the time. ALL THE TIME. It’s never right to bend the rules; never. So I’m not saying it’s cool to bend rules
- But oftentimes, when people bend rules in our culture, especially in business, we think that bending rules is cute and daring
- One dumb example, off the top of my head: Facebook was built when Mark Zuckerberg stole images from Harvard University. Flat-out stole
- Baseball is well known for cheaters. Spitballs. Vaseline. These people are heroes
- This is a terrible, terrible situation
- I am beside myself
These children— please remember that they are CHILDREN— are heroes to me who have brought me great joy. I am very grateful to them. Nobody can tell me I can’t be.
