" a moment that seemed to change the world." (Guess what it's about) [View All]

[jobycom]

I'm posting this in GD because my point isn't about the contents of the story, but about the tone.

Selective clips:

you almost wanted the world to stop spinning -- just for a moment -- so you could digest what was unfolding before your eyes.

But it was ... a moment that seemed to change the world.

What just happened? Did we really see what we just saw?

But were we sure this was real?

These are questions you always ask yourselves at moments like this, when the impossible has just turned possible.

When you've witnessed what you've just witnessed, anything seems possible. Anything.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs2005/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=2194729

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Yes, all these quotes are from an ESPN story on Albert Pujols winning a game last night. Not a pennant, not the World Series. One playoff game.

I like baseball, I watched the game, i cheered for the Astros, and I was amazed at what Pujols did, so this has nothing to do with him. I like Pujols, except last night, of course. But in a world where an earthquake has killed over 50,000 people, a tsunami has killed 300,000, two hurricanes have killed over 2000 people, our nation is occupying a formerly sovereign nation and losing more than a soldier a day, on average, and where at any moment someone is likely to strike us for the sins of a leader we didn't elect (as we did to them), all in the last year, this just seems a bit, oh, I don't know. Bombastic? Out of touch? Frivolous, I think is the word.

Just my thoughts. I don't mean this to be a baseball post, but a media/national attention post.