Note to self, don’t talk to people about my thoughts on recycling.
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God i’m so tired of arguing about this. All other things being equal, a team that has twice as much as money (a.k.a. resources) is going to have a ridiculous, unfair advantage. Yeah yeah, i know life ain’t fair – we ain’t talkin’ about life – we’re talking about a game. A game played in a league – you know, with other teams in other cities. Yeah yeah, the Yankees don’t win all the time. However, they do have more championships than any other franchise in North American professional sports (not just baseball) history. And I said “all other things being equal” and having dumb manager/owner wasting their money doesn’t qualify as being equal to other more competent allocators of resources found in the MLB. Do I expect everyone to spend exactly the same amount, no. But a 5:1 ratio between the richest and poorest and almost a 2:1 ratio between the #1 & #7 who manage to make it to the final game is silly [cite: http://baseball.about.com/od/newsrumors/a/09teamsalaries.htm]. If you can’t see how this degree of resource disparity is bad for the game, you’re probably just too blinded by your selfish and weak-minded desire to be apart of a winning team (with a healthy side of stupid maybe).
On a related note, if you are either a Lakers or Yankees fan and didn’t grow up there or spend a substantial part of your life in LA/NYC during a formative period in your life (childhood/college), please take note of my name: Jinyoung Kim. If I meet you, please don’t waste my time, turn around and go bore someone else.
My wife just came back from spending a couple weeks in Korea. I pick her up from the airport and we arrive home late. It was past my son’s bedtime so she only got to give him a kiss as he slept. This morning when my wife woke up and reunited with our awake son we had a great time playing as son was more cheerful than usual. We had breakfast with Bill Moyers interviewing Dr. Jim Young Kim in the background. Given the similarity of his name to mine, it perked my interested and I listened intently to this interview. I was inspired by his wish to show the “young people” at Dartmouth that individuals can make a difference in the world. With this thought in my mind, I was unexpectedly blown away by Seoul Train.
Seoul Train is a documentary about the plight of North Korean refugees attempting to escape to/via China. For North Koreans, China itself is a nightmare. Even so, these North Koreans are so desperate and feel so hopeless about their future in their homeland that they risk the incredibly treacherous escape through China. With my wife and son playing by my side, I felt blindsided by this film. The one-two combination of Dr. Kim telling me that individuals can make a difference and seeing the incredible story the refugees and the activist that help them was more than I could handle.
How can I help?! I don’t know but figuring that out just made it into my top five list of things to do.
