It seems the chase is for the love of big money, not the game. Stay true to your passion and be the quiet resolve that keeps baseball true and honest to its past, passion, and profession! But I do love me some football . . .
I'm a football fan but I don't wear goofy ass costumes or play fantasy bullshit. I've been a fan since 1986, so I remember it as "the grid iron" but it's turned into something else entirely. Something dorky as hell, really.
The NBA is the same. Going to a Bucks game now is an assault on the senses. Overly loud music (and I like loud), flashing lights, and spectacle. It's gone far beyond hyping the crowd up or getting them behind the team in a crucial moment. When I left Fiserv my eyes and ears actually hurt.
On the one hand, you have the sport, the game, which I'm sure many purists rightfully enjoy.
But then you have the NFL, this disgraceful commercialized mutation that is just an extension of high school's hormonal and immature mindlessness. It is as if American advertising culture assumed a monstrous physical form in pads, helmets, and tight shiny leggings. Gross.
I love baseball, and ice hockey and soccer to lesser degrees. I enjoy the game of basketball, but similar to football, it has sprouted an NBA appendage that is football in shorts.
Sports are a fine distraction but I loathe football. I find it a very boring, monotonous grind and the Super Bowl, the only time I watch football, is the worst America has to offer but you're nobody if you're not watching it.
By the way, this is the greatest fucking rant ever!
A phrase my mom began using as age robbed her and dad of more and more: "This is where we are." This is where we are. Baseball chases the "dipshits" because that's mostly what people are these days — empty-minded intellectual infants who need to be distracted by noisy and fury signifying FA.
For baseball to survive, let alone thrive, in such an environment, it has little choice but to go with that flow. And the bottom line for those running The Show is that the bottom line is the bottom line. The Great God of Profit is what we worship now. Hell, we live in a world where people need to be reminded of the importance of touching grass once in a while. Hell, it's hell, and we are not out of it.
I used to hear the lament that baseball was dying, no one cared to watch baseball anymore. I haven't noticed that drumbeat recently. Instead, the lament now is that baseball has changed for the worse (totally agree, btw). Which would we rather? A rich and nuanced but dying sport in a world gone mentally shallow or the jangling keys and distractions that keep it competitive with the spectacle of other sports?
I think the reality is that, if baseball went back to its roots as a quiet and intelligent sport, I'm not sure it would survive in the modern world. At least, despite the glare of all the annoying spectacle, one can still see the game.
It seems the chase is for the love of big money, not the game. Stay true to your passion and be the quiet resolve that keeps baseball true and honest to its past, passion, and profession! But I do love me some football . . .
I'm a football fan but I don't wear goofy ass costumes or play fantasy bullshit. I've been a fan since 1986, so I remember it as "the grid iron" but it's turned into something else entirely. Something dorky as hell, really.
The NBA is the same. Going to a Bucks game now is an assault on the senses. Overly loud music (and I like loud), flashing lights, and spectacle. It's gone far beyond hyping the crowd up or getting them behind the team in a crucial moment. When I left Fiserv my eyes and ears actually hurt.
Football is a curious obsession.
On the one hand, you have the sport, the game, which I'm sure many purists rightfully enjoy.
But then you have the NFL, this disgraceful commercialized mutation that is just an extension of high school's hormonal and immature mindlessness. It is as if American advertising culture assumed a monstrous physical form in pads, helmets, and tight shiny leggings. Gross.
I love baseball, and ice hockey and soccer to lesser degrees. I enjoy the game of basketball, but similar to football, it has sprouted an NBA appendage that is football in shorts.
Sports are a fine distraction but I loathe football. I find it a very boring, monotonous grind and the Super Bowl, the only time I watch football, is the worst America has to offer but you're nobody if you're not watching it.
By the way, this is the greatest fucking rant ever!
Righteous rant!
A phrase my mom began using as age robbed her and dad of more and more: "This is where we are." This is where we are. Baseball chases the "dipshits" because that's mostly what people are these days — empty-minded intellectual infants who need to be distracted by noisy and fury signifying FA.
For baseball to survive, let alone thrive, in such an environment, it has little choice but to go with that flow. And the bottom line for those running The Show is that the bottom line is the bottom line. The Great God of Profit is what we worship now. Hell, we live in a world where people need to be reminded of the importance of touching grass once in a while. Hell, it's hell, and we are not out of it.
I used to hear the lament that baseball was dying, no one cared to watch baseball anymore. I haven't noticed that drumbeat recently. Instead, the lament now is that baseball has changed for the worse (totally agree, btw). Which would we rather? A rich and nuanced but dying sport in a world gone mentally shallow or the jangling keys and distractions that keep it competitive with the spectacle of other sports?
I think the reality is that, if baseball went back to its roots as a quiet and intelligent sport, I'm not sure it would survive in the modern world. At least, despite the glare of all the annoying spectacle, one can still see the game.
Just saw an Ernie Harwell quote that made me think of your post: “baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.”