On Thursday night, Major League Baseball held its first scheduled game in Iowa. The game was played on the iconic farm where the movie “Dream Field” was filmed.alliance Created a new field for the MLB dimension (Connected to the original field through a corn maze), but the outfield is still a corn field, and the environment is ethereal. For baseball fans, everything is pretty magical, but for a reporter, this incident has a dark side.
Chelsea Janes travels to Daylesville for The Washington Post A unique stage for reporting professional baseball games She was very nervous looking for the problem of the incident. Too bad, the players did not play together. The problem-finding work started early in the article. As Janes described, the wind blew through the crops and immediately reversed the situation.
No matter what disturbance the wind might cause to the 8,000-seat temporary stadium on the scene of the movie “Dreamland”, it seems to dissipate in these areas, as if corn itself is blocking the reality that Major League Baseball hopes it can be postponed forever . After all, Thursday should be about the ruthless magic of eternal games.
Even if he admits that there should be good reasons to be excited, the writer is determined to find racial issues to infuse the proceedings. So where did she get the concept of this problem? Mainly through her imagination.
For the unfamiliar, the film is based on the story of a farmer, and he began to hear someone tell him to build a baseball field in the middle of his corn crop. There are some questions involving his late father, then a reclusive novelist, and everything is centered on the mysterious diamond. When the venue was completed, the 1919 Chicago White Sox, led by “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, emerged from the cornfield, and they began to play regularly—but only selected family members could see them.
This is where Janes grabs things to discover her conflict. You see, the center of this movie is a group of white players. This is because Major League Baseball was isolated at the time. This leads the author to this paragraph:
“But in addition to corn and emotions, the evening is also a contradictory display, reminding Major League Baseball that it hopes that the position of its sport in the hearts of its followers and the reality of its management is a vast plain.”
This game seemed to have a script. It was a multi-home run game. Before the White Sox won from Tim Anderson’s home run, the New York Yankees sent a few home runs in the 9th inning. Enter the cornfield to equalize the score. Anderson is a special concern for Janes because he is not only a black player, but also a board member of the Players League, which is a radical organization made up of POC players. Of course, he will see all the problems in the movie and the matching problems of this game.
Given the following, this will not work for Janes:
“[Anderson] I have never watched this movie. When black players are not allowed to play with them, this movie centers on white baseball legends. “
She then turned to other players, such as Cuban natives Jose Abreu and Yoan Moncada, but they also did not provide any quotable abuse, instead focusing on the activity and cheering every time a home run entered the crop. “Anxious to find an advantage that can cut into her point of view, Janes wrote:
The game may not have the same meaning to everyone who has played it.But it seems to make sense to everyone.
Yes, games have meaning for everyone, as captured in James Earl Jones’ monologue at the end of the movie:
Rays. People will come, Ray. They will come to Iowa for reasons they cannot understand. They will turn into your lane but are not sure why they are doing this. They will come to your door, as innocent as children, and miss the past. “Of course, if you look around, we won’t mind,” you would say, “It’s only twenty dollars per person.” They would even give them money without thinking, because what they have is money, and what they lack is Safety. On a perfect afternoon, they would walk to the stands and sit in the sleeves of their shirts. And found that they had reserved the seats they had taken when they were children somewhere on the baseline. And cheer for their heroes.
They will watch the game as if they were immersed in magical water. The memories will be so heavy, they have to wipe them off their faces. People will come, Ray. Thunder, which has remained the same for many years, has always been baseball. The United States is rolling in like a road roller. It is erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and then erased again. But baseball marks time. This field, this game, is part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of everything that was once beautiful, and that may be beautiful again. Oh, people will come, Ray. People will definitely come.
This is the behavior of a writer, with a pre-set agenda, to do her best to find evidence of her convictions. It is especially worth noting that when no evidence was found to support her argument, she did not give up. Even more ridiculous is that one of the protagonists of this so-called racist film is a black writer, played by James Earl Jones. The White Sox was not selected based on race, but based on the historical events of players being suspended. This is also a plot point of the film; bring them back so that they can play again.
A link that fails alone is pleasant, but the hint of a racial problem in baseball is also off-target. Major League Baseball has one of the most diverse sports rosters of all its teams, probably second only to the NHL. Approximately 250 players from approximately 20 countries participated in the major leagues. Treating this sport as a white man’s game is a conclusion you cannot draw, but a conclusion you emerge.
This is what happens when the reporter announces There must be a problemThe lack of evidence to support this statement has little impact on the report, but it ignores a more important point.
