Gay People Play Baseball, Don't They?

It's only nine days until the beginning of Gay Games 2006, and host city Chicago is all aflame in anticipation.

But, gay people, I have a gripe with your Gay Games. I happen to know for a rumored fact that there's at least one gay professional baseball player. And it's not Mike Piazza. He held a press conference and married the Playboy Playmate of the Millennium to prove his straightness.

There's also a pretty well-known novel by Peter Lefcourt called The Dreyfus Affair, that features a relationship (a gay one!) between a shortstop and a second baseman. It's in a novel, so it must be true.

And yet, gay people, your Gay Games do not include baseball. This is a travesty. And unconscionable.

I believe in civil rights for gay people. I believe in gay marriage. And you know I believe in gay baseball. So quid pro quo, gay people. Give me some damned gay baseball.