The news that Glenn Beck is leaving FOX for—for other projects at FOX, I guess—is one of those things I simply will not make a comment on in either direction, as someone who does not want to incite political violence on a sports website. But I can say this: The less Beck is in the public eye, the less I have to hear about Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa's stint at Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally last summer. This—this is unalloyed good news.
Like Luke Scott's recent birther-flavored comments and, further back, Carlos Delgado's anti-war stance and the subsequent media hubbub, what bothered me most about the Beck/La Russa connection wasn't that baseball players have opinions, it's that baseball fans do. Sports communities like this one are themselves a social world, with positions and arguments and heated debates, but at their best there's always the underlying truism that, say, the people at Game Time are Blues hockey fans, and the people at Viva El Birdos, no matter what else they do in life, fans of Cardinals baseball.
Alternate, and equally vague, versions of Glenn Beck's departure from FOX came out tonight in the aftermath of today's surprising announcement.
Beck spoke about it at the end of his show tonight, noting that leaving Fox was "something I've been thinking about doing for a long time" before going on to reassure viewers "we will find each other...I will continue to tell the story and I'm going to be showing you."
And then, in typical Beck fashion: "Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say 'I'm going to be doing this the rest of my life, he got off the horse at some point."
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