What, baseball should erect barriers to protect paying fans who enter the park by their own choice? Rick Morrissey is an award-winning columnist? What, was it a slow news day with the Cubs rained out?
Using Morrissey’s logic, we should erect safety nets under Mt. Everest because there have been too many deaths and injuries from random flying matter (i.e., avalanches). Better yet, let’s cut the speed limit on Illinois tollways to 15 m.p.h., cutting injuries and deaths to zero. Since we don’t know when automobiles may be inadvertently hurtling toward us by chance, the lower speeds would be a great safety net for the one in millions who might be injured.
Rick, you and your ilk want to avoid injury at a baseball game? Don’t go. Tens of millions of fans who understand that you must pay attention at a ballgame to avoid injury will and do take your place every year.
