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It is astounding how persistently irritating the world has become. Nothing draws a normal reaction.
The Dodgers won the World Series last season, so of course they’re invited to the White House to be honored by President Trump.
Which means it’s time to endure all the dreadful nonsense from activist groups and woke sports journalists insisting that, because of Trump’s ICE policies, the Dodgers shouldn’t go to Washington D.C. to accept this honor.
When will these people shut up?
When will they go away?
Why is every little pleasure in life ruined by loudmouth, attention-seeking lunatics pushing one ridiculous issue or another?
I love baseball.
I’ve loved it since I was 7 years old, growing up In New Jersey. I rooted hard for the Mets, hated the Yankees and spent most of my childhood evening watching baseball games.
The announcers helped inspire me to get into broadcasting.
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I probably watched 1,000 games, no exaggeration.
The highlight of every year was my dad and godfather taking my brother and me to a Mets game for our birthdays.
I never heard a single word about politics during the broadcasts.
Political controversies didn’t exist inside the sports pages.
No normal human ever connected sports with politics back then. Life was beautiful.
While in high school, I got a job in the sports department of a local suburban newspaper.
It had a big staff: 16 writers and editors covering everything from high school sports to the professional New York teams.
Over five years, I spent hundreds of nights with the other writers and editors.
I’ve tried hard to remember, but I can’t think of a single political conversation or story that was ever discussed.
Everybody talked about sports or music or women or where they were going out drinking later.
No one was woke.
The conversation was raunchy and hilarious. Working in a newspaper sports department was wild fun.
I don’t know why sports writers became moral scolds, obsessed with every obnoxious social issue.
When did they become humorless, predictable and relentlessly annoying?
They’re now unreadable and the sports commentators who indulge in this are unlistenable. At some point I gave up on ESPN and never went back.
Maybe they changed because their sports articles never generated enough clicks, but their political rants draw attention on the internet.
Members of activist groups get paid for their disruption and their real goal is to ruin everything that was good about this country and take the enjoyment out of anything that entertains us.
Late night comedy, ruined. Award shows, ruined. I couldn’t watch the NFL for a while because of all the social justice messaging ––in the endzone, no less.
Yes, I know, you’re “raising awareness.” Awareness has been raised; shut up.
On the night of game 7 of the Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series, I watched it at a restaurant, attending a birthday party.
It was the most gripping, shocking, exhausting Game 7 in history.
Dozens of people who didn’t know each other were screaming and cheering during one of the most excruciating, tense games I’ve ever seen.
Strangely, no one was talking about Trump or ICE raids.
The Dodgers went through a very long season, survived many injuries and then produced one the most memorable comebacks ever, the likes of which we probably won’t ever see again.
They and the fans want to relive Shohei Ohtani’s MVP season, Miguel Rojas’ game-tying home run in Game 7 and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s historic pitching performance.
Nobody wants a tiresome debate about Trump and ICE.
Let us enjoy our lives!
The Dodger players want to go; the management wants to go.
The fans want to see them there.
The 32-year championship drought was not that long ago. You never know if you’ve seen the last one in your lifetime.
The final postscript is the White House visit.
On that day in April, if you don’t like it, go on your silly Bluesky account and entertain all your miserable friends with your idiotic Trump rants.
The rest of us normal baseball fans are going to enjoy the ceremony.
John Kobylt is the host of the John Kobylt Show on KFI Radio AM 640 Los Angeles.