Why Man Crush Baseball?
t’s not a gay thing. It’s a respect thing. It’s an “I see what you’re doing and I like it” thing. It’s a man crush. I have a lot of them. I scream when Jack White sings. I don’t look away when Jason exposes his Segel in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” I shake my head side to side when I listen to Paul McCartney. I was Dan Marino for Halloween seven years in a row. These man-crushes define us.
You find yourself wanting to be him. Or be with him. Either way, it’s a totally heterosexual attraction. So what if I get goosebumps every time Andy Samburg looks straight into the camera on SNL? Who cares if if I got teary eyed during “The Wrestler” when Mickey Rourke aka Randy “The Ram” dropped the Ram Jam on the Ayatollah. And why does it matter if I still wear my Michael Jordan basketball camp t-shirt from 6th grade? Man crushes can make you do some crazy things.
Urban Dictionary defines the man-crush as “A man having extreme admiration for another man, as though he wants to be him” or “When a straight man has a “crush” on another man, not sexual but kind of idolizing him.”These are our idols. These are our man crushes.
