Menchiest Met Ever: Carlos Delgado

We celebrate Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado’s decision not to show up for “God Bless America” ​​because we haven’t stood up for the National Anthem for years. for good reasons

First of all, Star Spangled Banner is, hands down, the most unsingable, hummable, and worst song ever written. Worse than any Paul McCartney song. Why Congress didn’t scrap it years ago and replace it with Britney Spears’ “Toxic” is beyond us.

Second, we remain seated as a lesson to all fascists in the making; the lesson is that the foundation of this Republic is twofold: equality of opportunity and freedom of speech (ie, the First Amendment). If we want to sit down during the national anthem, damn it, then we have the right to sit down. Everyone seems to forget that the First Amendment protects unpopular speech and expression, including Nazis who march through Skokie (a Jewish neighborhood near Chicago), artists who paint the Virgin Mary out of cow dung, homosexuals who tongue kissing in public, the TV show Friends, and Carlos Delgado showing his opposition to the war in Iraq by not supporting God Bless America.

From an article by Karl Taro Greenfield in this week’s Sports Illustrated:

Delgado says his refusal to stand up to sing God Bless America in 2004 and 2005 to protest the Iraq war was simply a logical extension of values ​​he and his family had long held. “I think it’s the stupidest war in history,” he told The Toronto Star in 2004. “Who are you fighting? Now they’re just ambushing you.”

Since then, much to the surprise, Delgado has been booed by legions of airheads (Yankees fans) who don’t volunteer to fight in Iraq any more than we’d ever teach in high school.

Finally, a public figure with drawers, like his hero Roberto Clemente.

Let them boo, Carlos, let them boo.