Dear UW baseball fans: Build a bridge...
...and get over it. The cutting of baseball that is. The University of Wisconsin cut the sport in 1991--17 years ago. Yet every spring I come across all these young men pining for baseball. Not to play it--they want to watch it. They want to watch college baseball. Unfortunately, not that many people wanted to watch it when UW did have a team. But this guy , despite knowing the lack of popularity of the sport, longs for spring days in the stadium. And this guy , who I think has written this same editorial before, blames Title IX of course. Though he does that tricky "I believe in gender equity and supporting women's sports but they aren't that exciting yet" thing so he doesn't come off as a complete chauvinist. Title IX came along and baseball got cut--for fairly good reasons--it wasn't that popular, trying to play baseball in Wisconsin is difficult given the lengthy winters, and they had a gender equity problem. The writer thinks that "it seems like as l...