One of the Best Moments in Baseball History

by Maynard on April 28, 2008

32 years ago Friday, Rick Monday saved the American flag from being burned at Dodger Stadium. It is another beautiful weekend as it was so long ago, and while baseball has changed, our commitment to the flag and all she stands for has not. (HT Ed at Hot Air).

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  1. LtDan says:
    April 28, 2008 at 09:43

    …..and today we have a presidential candidate who refuses to pledge allegance to, or wear the flag, as a “statement”. Seems to me that statement resembles the same one being made by those two flag burners.
    Anyway, I never knew about Monday’s great play, great vid!

  2. PeteRFNY says:
    April 28, 2008 at 10:02

    Still one of my personal favorite highlights in a sport that has so many. An incredible moment, for sure. I love how the idiot with the lighter fluid throws the can at Monday as he runs off with the flag.

    To this day, it’s still unclear what the two morons (a father and son, BTW) were actually protesting. For all we know, they may have just been trying to get in TV.

    I don’t know many of today’s players that would stand for this, either (except maybe a small handful of disrespectful idiots like Carlos Delgado).

    The good news is, today’s ballpark security is a lot stronger and those guys would be mashed into the grass before anything like that would ever happen again.

  3. Teresita says:
    April 28, 2008 at 12:08

    If it has been thirty-two years since a flag was almost burned at a baseball stadium, what would be the value added in a bid to amend the Constitution to make that illegal? How about we concentrate instead on closing the “anchor baby” loophole in the 14th?

  4. Teresita says:
    April 28, 2008 at 14:29

    You wrote: …today we have a presidential candidate who refuses to pledge allegance to, or wear the flag, as a “statement”.

    That statement is a rejection of empty symbolism in favor of true patriotic deeds and values. There is no religious test for public office. Pledging allegience to the flag is viewed by some as a weird kind of state religion, putting the flag over the cross. Certainly the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists think along these lines. There are strict rules about the display of the flag and wearing a flag is forbidden. Does Seattle Congressman “Baghdad” Jim McDermott suddenly become a patriot if he wears a flag pin? Is John McCain not a patriot if he misplaces his? The flag is the symbol of America, well and good, but a flag pin is just a symbol of that symbol.

  5. rick554 says:
    April 28, 2008 at 14:49

    I remember seeing this on TV at Base ops at Osan AFB Korea on my way home . We ALL cheered Rick
    Monday and I’m glad he was there to save the FLAG
    A Proud Vet and a Proud parent of a SOLDIER
    Rick 554
    thanks Tammy!!

  6. gabrielpicasso says:
    April 28, 2008 at 15:29

    It’s too bad he didn’t use his spikes and nail them in the back.

  7. Ann says:
    April 28, 2008 at 16:36

    I remember when this happened. I am a Mets fan, but LOVE Rick Monday.

  8. Ann says:
    April 28, 2008 at 16:50

    PETERFNY: Did something happen with Carlos Delgado besides not taking the curtain call? I’ve been really busy lately and not following baseball as closely as I usually do. That was terrible. If he can’t take the boos he should 1. play better or 2. leave. Mets fans boo other fans for missing foul balls. Attendance is huge this year, especially considering how last season ended.

  9. PeteRFNY says:
    April 30, 2008 at 21:48

    Ann – it goes back to when he was with the Blue Jays. Delgado started yapping to the media about how he didn’t support the war (he’s big on talking about how many people the US has “killed”) and was also PO’d about the US Naval Base in Vieques, and some other stuff…so he decided he wouldn’t stand during the singing of “God Bless America” at ballparks (or be present for moments of silence for the troops) as a protest. Mets management forced him to “show respect”, since a moment of silence is regularly observed at Shea, the Mets’ home stadium.

    He’s an anti-militarist and likes to flap his gums to the media about how evil the United States is whenever given the chance (even though it’s the very country he hates that has made him into a multi-millionaire).

    The place he hates grants him the freedom to be an ass, but it also grants me the freedom to see him as a disrespectful, ungrateful mope.

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