Chula Vista

So you think it's just a little league game ...guess again! We were at a 50+ birthday party last night among a huge throng of ...get this...home grown, city proud, my cousin knows..., people in Chula Vista...and that was most everything they talked about...yup, the Little League team from their little town...so yes, they are playing for the title today and there could not have been more pride and honor for the area...and you think there is too much emphasis on sports...as I said to one of the party goers "it's just a little league game..." and his response was, "you must not be from Chula Vista!"...
Which made me thinketh more...why sport? Why not other stuff? There was a time back in Orygun that the high school swallowed up the 9th graders and what was left over was the middle school...and the powers to be eliminated competitive sports...well, that lasted a few short years, as the school lost it's identity...go to any small town or city and go to a football game on any Friday night, and you'll see the entire community there! It's all about pride...
I get that same feeling when you talk Chargers around here...now, you may not go to the Q and take the game in...but you probably will watch the game on TV and have just as much passion as those who go...there is blue and gold everywhere...and everyone talks LT...
Or if you go to a reunion, the talk almost always goes back to the team and all...other than who died, who looks old, who looks good, etc...
Just try and take the Del Mar race track away from the city of Del Mar...like the Guv is trying to do...
So now Chula Vista becomes USA as it battles an Asian group of kids...my oh my, how crowds love to chant U-S-A, U-S-A...well, from this country they do, and...that's pride and honor...but,
it's only a little league game...