Tim Tebow and American Celebrity-Insanity

During my fifty years of rooting fanatically for the New York Yankees, I can scarcely remember ever being disappointed in the Yankee Stadium crowd. But I was last night when they booed Tim Tebow. Oh, I recall during the fourth and final game of the horrible 1976 world series, a few idiots threw some trash at the third base umpire. But that was different (how?). Generally, however, the new york fans are demanding, expressive, but knowldegable and fair minded.

Maybe Tebow is regarded by New Yorkers as an interloper, an intruder into the New York Jets NFL football universe. If he plays well, the boos will turn to cheers, of course. That is not to say that the crowd should have cheered Tebow last night. A faint smattering of formal,  polite,  unenthusiastic applause would have sufficed. In america, we wayyyy over react to celebrities, who are, in a sense, the modern american version of gods and goddesses. 

Note to our Russian friends: Readers around the world are strongly encouraged to consider becoming interested in the american sport of "baseball". It truly is a marvelous game, and tends to represent america at its best.  Unlike american football, american baseball is not too violent.

Tim Tebow represents another aspect of america; america's tendency to make way too much fuss over "celebrities", positive fuss and negative fuss. Tebow is by all accounts a good guy, perfectly normal (whatever "normal" is).  Evidently he is a devout christian, doesn't drink, smoke, or consort with whores, but prays and goes to church a lot. For all we know he may be a bit smug and arrogant, which is how people often respond to being famous, but, basically, a good, average, normal guy.

Goethe said "Nobody is fortunate enough to escape either praise or blame".  Oh, so true. The american media exaggerates the celebrity of people like Tebow, because the american people lap it up, and it generates corporate revenue. Maybe the combination of Tebow's rugged handsome looks and clean lifestyle is just too sexy for our american corporate masters to resist shoving down our willing and craning throats.

A wishful thought just came to mind. Maybe the crowd at Yankees Stadium wasn't really booing Tim Tebow for being a good guy. Maybe they were booing because they were expressing resentment at our corporate masters for having the audacity to shove more american celebrity culture down our throats in the middle of a perfectly good game of baseball.

by Bb

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