I have always been a follower of the Boston Red Sox. For whatever reasons of human foolishness, a baseball team can have a significant impact on our emotions. Where ever you go in the community at large and in "Red Sox Nation" you can always manage to find a person that you can strike up a conversation with regarding the the triumphs or travails of the club and share memories of team related events. Every now and then, however, it is necessary to put things in perspective.
Just such a perspective building moment happened for me Friday night when a friend of mine showed me a poster sanctioned by Major League Baseball and being handed out by Dunkin Donuts as a Memorial Day weekend Red Sox promotion. The particular poster can be partially seen in the upper right hand corner of this post and features Mike Lowell, Manny Ramirez and Tim Wakefield as "Combat Tested Veterans."
On a holiday specifically created to honor Americans killed in battle, it is particularly insulting to their memory to compare men playing a boys game for ridiculous amounts of money to soldiers serving the country. The Red Sox, Dunkin Donuts and Major League Baseball should have the brains to know better and pull this thing off the shelves.
