Empty the Bench

Steve Greenberg of the Sporting News recently chatted up Massachusetts senator and ex-presidential candidate John Kerry about sports, of course leading with questions about Kerry’s one-man crusade against MLB’s deal with DirecTV. It’s nice that Kerry likes baseball and all, but, um, doesn’t he have other things to worry about?

Anyway, the whole interview (it’s not long and is mostly puff) can be read here; a few excerpts:

SN: We hear baseball’s new deal with DirecTV (which would make out-of-market games available only to fans with the service) rubs you the wrong way. Why is that?

Kerry: This whole deal smells bad. MLB should look for ways to make baseball more accessible to fans, not less. I hope that MLB, DirecTV and others can get this done. Any deal worth $700 million that puts fewer games on TV is going to raise a big red flag.

SN: You’re 6-4 — can you dunk on pretty much anybody in Washington?

Kerry: Yes — and someday I will show you my victory celebration.

Not sure what exactly his “victory celebration” entails, but wouldn’t it be sweet to watch Kerry raise the roof and shake his bony ass like he just don’t care?