Constant Craving
Happy National Pride Month, everyone! For those that don't know, June is LGBTQ Pride Month. The time of year where most of the parades around the country take place and a good number of Americans celebrate and reflect on the history of LGBTQ community and liberation movement for all gender minorities in this country. Even though so many out there, like our current leaders, continue to disavow and marginalize us as second class citizens, those of proper and real moral values stand along side of us. If you consider or have proven yourselves to be one of our straight allies, I want to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of all of us in the LGBTQ community for your continued support and love for our important causes towards full equality under the law and true justice for all.
To that end, it was only fitting for me to reference a hit song by K.D. Lang for today's post title. Oddly enough, she wrote and recorded the song in 1992 as a means of coming out of the closet herself. However, to me, the song is about much more than identity and self awareness. It is also a song about yearning to see things come to fruition that maybe have not yet, or will never, come to be. One thing that I have yet to see transpire in the past few years of baseball is seeing your people's champion and mine, Evan Gattis, get selected to be in either the All Star Game, or the Home Run derby at the very least.
The closest El Oso Blanco came to being apart of the midsummer classic was last season, when he placed 5th among American League DH players. While it will be an uphill battle for him to climb through, it's not completely out of the realm of possibility to get him in there this season. And just an FYI for you readers and fans out there, voting has already begun for this year's All Star Game. The polls opened up just today, in fact. Giving that there hasn't been anything eye popping from the DH position as far as average or OPS, the bull-bear actually has a shot, however small it might be.
But there in lies the dilemma. His shot can actually be greater if us fans are willing to put our pride aside and actually make the effort to get him there. There is no guarantee of the home run derby, since those players are selected by the team captain from each league. So the best chance he has to get to the midsummer classic festivities is by us voting him there. Fans, we can do this, and I'm asking politely for you all to give it some real thought, consideration and action.
Yes, the usual suspects of Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and others are to be expected in the game. Albeit, they would also completely deserve to be there. But so does Evan Gattis. He stands today as one of the most underrated players in the entire league, and a proverbial outcast in this sport. We have the power to change that, as well as the hearts and minds of others around Major League Baseball. Complacency is the enemy here, folks. Take the 5 minutes out of your day to vote for as many Astros players as possible. But also, find it in your hearts to put Evan Gattis among them.
As the chorus in the K.D. Lang song says, "That constant craving has always been." It's time for the craving of seeing Gatty Daddy make it to the midsummer classic to start coming true and being satisfied. Or should I say, GATTISFIED! (Don't judge me!) If not now, when? Now is as good a time as any to me. So please fans, join me in this conquest of getting our Oso voted in to among the league's best players. He is much more so than people realize, so let's reward his hard work once and for all!
To that end, it was only fitting for me to reference a hit song by K.D. Lang for today's post title. Oddly enough, she wrote and recorded the song in 1992 as a means of coming out of the closet herself. However, to me, the song is about much more than identity and self awareness. It is also a song about yearning to see things come to fruition that maybe have not yet, or will never, come to be. One thing that I have yet to see transpire in the past few years of baseball is seeing your people's champion and mine, Evan Gattis, get selected to be in either the All Star Game, or the Home Run derby at the very least.
The closest El Oso Blanco came to being apart of the midsummer classic was last season, when he placed 5th among American League DH players. While it will be an uphill battle for him to climb through, it's not completely out of the realm of possibility to get him in there this season. And just an FYI for you readers and fans out there, voting has already begun for this year's All Star Game. The polls opened up just today, in fact. Giving that there hasn't been anything eye popping from the DH position as far as average or OPS, the bull-bear actually has a shot, however small it might be.
But there in lies the dilemma. His shot can actually be greater if us fans are willing to put our pride aside and actually make the effort to get him there. There is no guarantee of the home run derby, since those players are selected by the team captain from each league. So the best chance he has to get to the midsummer classic festivities is by us voting him there. Fans, we can do this, and I'm asking politely for you all to give it some real thought, consideration and action.
Yes, the usual suspects of Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and others are to be expected in the game. Albeit, they would also completely deserve to be there. But so does Evan Gattis. He stands today as one of the most underrated players in the entire league, and a proverbial outcast in this sport. We have the power to change that, as well as the hearts and minds of others around Major League Baseball. Complacency is the enemy here, folks. Take the 5 minutes out of your day to vote for as many Astros players as possible. But also, find it in your hearts to put Evan Gattis among them.
As the chorus in the K.D. Lang song says, "That constant craving has always been." It's time for the craving of seeing Gatty Daddy make it to the midsummer classic to start coming true and being satisfied. Or should I say, GATTISFIED! (Don't judge me!) If not now, when? Now is as good a time as any to me. So please fans, join me in this conquest of getting our Oso voted in to among the league's best players. He is much more so than people realize, so let's reward his hard work once and for all!
Original Photo Credit: Sean M. Haffey of Getty Images
#VoteGattis 2018! We need to hear him roar!
Comments
Post a Comment