In a class of our own

So finally got me a (hand me down) iPhone last week, along with the slick WordPress app that I’m currently using to write this post.
In a way I feel like I’m cheating — posting from a phone, on my couch. I also feel like mobile is dumbing down our writing. 140 characters is becoming the norm. Spelling, grammar, punctuation are going out the door.
But after watching the home run derby tonight, I realized we’re no longer against cheating or taking shortcuts.
Take Big Papi for example. It wasn’t long ago David Ortiz was a reported PED user. On Monday he was a home run derby champion, hitting 11 bombs in the finale.
Not once during ESPN’s broadcast were PEDs mentioned, even when Boomer was asking A-Rod about home run production in MLB this year. Woulda been a great time to pose the question, but instead both ESPN and now the general baseball public have accepted PEDs and are doing the same thing we did in the 90s and early 00s — turning a blind eye to the dark underbelly of the game. Bobby V even went as far as to call Ortiz a “class act” on the way out.
So, instead of spell checking this post on my PC, or adding missing hyphens and other proper punctuation, I’m going to settle for the shortcut and steal my kicker graph from the great Ron Bergundy.
Keep it classy Papi. Keep it classy.