http://seattlest.com/2006/03/15/turn_of_the_screw.php All comments for Turn of the Screw en-us 2009 seattle_katelyn Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss kbhackett@gmail.com kbhackett@gmail.com 60 http://seattlest.com/2006/03/15/turn_of_the_screw.php#comment-163102 http://seattlest.com/2006/03/15/turn_of_the_screw.php#comment-163102 Comments Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:03:43 -0800 <p>I've also heard that Ichiro is a mean counter-tenor.</p> http://seattlest.com/2006/03/15/turn_of_the_screw.php#comment-163099 http://seattlest.com/2006/03/15/turn_of_the_screw.php#comment-163099 Comments Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:45:16 -0800 <p>I couldn't help laughing at the "dilemma" facing Seattle baseball fans [Ichiro vs. The World]. They love Ichiro because he currently plays for Seattle, but love America, and want them to beat the Japanese team. What's so funny to me is how easily we are all manipulated into caring about these random people, simply because they are temporarily working in our city. Like actors, pro athletes are literally meat for hire, always ready and willing to sell out to the highest bidder. It's just the nature of the business. And frankly I don't see why I should feel any more kinship with Ichiro than I do with Tom Hanks, just because he was in Sleepless in Seattle. I only wish I had the means and opportunity to buy many pro sports teams, just so I could trade every player from one team to another, and allow fans to reconsider what emotional mechanisms lie beneath their blind loyalties. In this respect, college sports makes more sense: those are your classmates on the field. Not random, drugged up, overpaid babies, threatening to move the second they can't get taxpayers to subsidize their salaries and their place of business. I guess I just question what is gained by perpetuating a society that so willingly hands out their respect, admiration and loyalty. </p>