As the sad news of Manny Ramirez getting caught for using steroids scrolled across Sportscenter this morning, it brought a sad reminder of all the great baseball players who were once my heroes, but are now nothing more than cheaters. The list goes on and on: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa and most recently A-Rod. Although Manny was somewhat hated around Tampa Bay for many years as the Rays and Red Sox were such rivals, he still brought a great personality to the game. He brought laughter and smiles, even when his team was going through the toughest of times.
While I reflected on this story, I thought of how great it must of been to be alive when the game was pure, before the time of steroids. I was thinking about great personalities of the old days and the first person that stood out in my mind was Yogi Berra. Yogi was similar to Manny as he was always cracking jokes and bringing laughter to his team. I found that writing about Yogi was especially relevant to this blog as this blog is about new ways to communicate and Yogi definitely spoke his own language
Yogi spoke in a way that was almost never grammatically correct nor did it really make sense, but people still understood what he was talking about. He had his own way of getting his point across and the fact that it was unusual or different from everyone else, made him stand out. I love reading Yogi’s quotes because it really proves how many ways there are to communicate.
Stagcabulary 