Two headlines in our daily paper, days apart, tell the tale of what REALLY matters to our testosterone-misdirected elected officials.
Women are told to go home, empty-handed.
The boys get to play with their baseballs ... while guaranteeing taxpayer investment in a professional sport that has fallen in popularity steadily since 1972.
Today, pro football is FOUR TIMES more popular than pro baseball. In the latest Gallup polling, baseball ranked its lowest since 1937, just a teensy bit more popular than soccer to US audiences. That's against a backdrop of falling attendance generally at all kinds of sporting events.
And Rhode Island is buying in!