The fascination of America with whatever American has been legendary for a long time. That narcissistic tendency reaches heights in Baseball.. Oops, my bad, I should have said "Major League Baseball". What is basically a club game between two private sports club is christened "World" Series and the winners of that are "World" Champs. This year's "World" Series was between NewYork and Philadelphia. I am not sure if any other country calls its local franchise club game as "World this" or "World that".
The above point was reinforced when I was flipping through the sports pages of our local newspaper "San Diego Union Tribune". Two pages were fully allocated for what they considered "the important sports news of the time" and that is - "How the state of New Jersey is split between whom to support in the above said World Series - New York or Phily." They even went to the extent putting a state map of NJ colored with NY team logo on north and phily team logo on south and interviews from Joes on NJ's streets on why they chose to support one over the other. I felt like saying "come on folks, the world is bigger than that". The only meaning I found in the whole 2 page article was the colors of the NY and Phily team are blue and red which, on NJ map, added a political twist to the case in american sense. (blue=democrats, red=repubs) but there wasnt a single mention of that angle in the article. Probably the newspaper chose caution - better stale than sorry.
The photo is that of an innocent colorful duck in SD Zoo. It was patient enough to pose for me quite a bit. This picture of the duck drinking water, however, felt to me as having a bit of narcissistic twist in the sense it looks like admiring its reflection in water if you want to call it. Hence the shot :-) for this article.
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