Local Sports Beat...By Cheating
http://houston.astros.mlb.com/hou/images/wallpaper/y2017/1920x1080_earnit.jpg ; Words of wisdom - maybe do it right next time? “…I think that this concentration on such topics as sports makes a certain degree of sense. The way the system is set up, there is virtually nothing people can do anyway, without a degree of organization that's far beyond anything that exists now, to influence the real world. They might as well live in a fantasy world, and that's in fact what they do. I'm sure they are using their common sense and intellectual skills, but in an area which has no meaning and probably thrives because it has no meaning, as a displacement from the serious problems which one cannot influence and affect because the power happens to lie elsewhere.” - Noam Chomsky The following has grown out of reflections on the recent accusations of cheating by the Houston Astros baseball team. My sister and I have followed the team closely thi...