A True Team Player

While the casual fan might consider going 0 for 3 at the plate a bad day at the ballpark, any baseball analyst would agree with me when I say that Henry Blanco's offensive performance today was utterly spectacular.

But how can that be possible?

It's called a sacrifice fly, the key word being sacrifice. Lets take a deeper look at this often overlooked phenomenon in a game that glorifies the individual athlete.

Webster's dictionary defines sacrifice as:

the destruction or surrender of something for the sake of something else.

In baseball terminology, this translates into surrendering personal statistics and destroying your batting average for the sake of the team. And that is exactly what Henry did today against the Brewers.

Blanco showed total selflessness and pushed obvious accolades aside while disregarding his own stats to help the Cubs bring home the W.

Can Americans ask for a better role model? I think not.

These guys seem to agree.

-rfs