Mike Inrem was sipping a coke when a security guard came up and told him it was time to leave the press box. Wrigley field was hosting another Chicago cubs game where corporations spend millions on baseball and comp gifts to their fellow corporate buddies in much like the gift giving federal authorities and traders gave Indian for the peace, On this day though a bomb threat ruined this free holiday for many and sports writers like Mr Inrem of the suburban daily Herald left immediately. As he wrote in his next column the bomb threat at Wrigley field was a wake up call that even the shrine of this ballpark is not immune to threats from ISIS or others knowing that it would make a tremendous target with thousands congregating watching a really boring spectacle.
Sportwriters such as imrem erve to take up space in newspapers from real issues that affect the public much more then men throwing a ball at one another. This is the purpose that baseball has served and why it is so financially rewarded and has money directed towards from the corporatists running the economy. Baseball is so boring that even the corporate sports media is fast-forwarding many highlights on television as they race to get to the commercial breaks where most time on cable broadcasting is devoted. I highly think this sport could ever achieved any following without the money manipulation and free and extensive publicity it has been given as a major platform of distraction for the working classes to get loss into instead of paying real attention to their country. 
Bigtime sports pushes inequslities in our faces whether from the salaries of these bodies on a grassy field to the whiteness of the fans and families that can afford to make frequent trips to a ballpark. baseball fns are much like the corporate class in America and are the same as they watch other people do the work on the field while being served and hawked to by vendors. This somber reminder of the dangerous times seemed to be unnerving to this dweeb long accustomed to the same routine of watching men with bats catch and run around a field in peace. Imren didn't like the secrecy of why everyone had to be rushed out of the park for an hour and that he left his coffee there to get cold. Imrem can afford to be in fantasyland just writing about the drama and stories of a game long played for a distraction of everyday life and for those select few elite sports writers with such an easy gig in this world where many struggle this real distraction in a bomb threat is unnerving to have to think about.
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