Regal Baseball
This guest post from Josue Nichols
They say that boxing is the sport of kings, but I beg to differ. I am sure there are many examples in history of kings organizing their servants into a game of nine on nine baseball played on a grass diamond. History is full of such undocumented facts. When I watch Major League Baseball, after all, I am stunned by the regal nature of the sport. Each player wears a cap, which I like to call a crown, and it is not uncommon to imagine the team logo as a royal insignia, nor is it out of the question or beyond the rules to encrust this cap in jewels, provided the team gets approval from the league office, which never happens, because the sport does not want to embarrass boxing and its obvious false advertising any further.
My favorite team is naturally the Kansas City Royals. They are a team built for the majestic kingdom that is Kansas City, Missouri. Whenever I see my favorite team play, I am transported to a time when monarchies were common and the class of a man was determined at birth. This is how baseball should conduct its drafts, based on a man's lineage. The way they do it now, based on merit, has worked well so far, but you never know when it might fail. In any case, I watch Royals games on direct tv international, because they have every game.