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1. A rant was an argumentative speech and baseball was used as an example of this to qualify two different athletes. 

2. The rant has changed through the web because now any person with internet access can critisize anyone about anything. 

3. This essay uses history and examples through the baseball segment. 

4. “Joe Torre recently decided not to accept the New York Yankees’ offer of a one-year contract, Buster Olney, a baseball writer for ESPN, argued that only one person—Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera—had been more valuable than the former manager during the team’s string of World Series wins.”

This quote shows the author focusing on examples and history. 

5. Rants can be constructive if the criticism is constructive or they can just be unnecessary or pointless if their ranting about a pointless argument that wont do anything useful.