Movies, TV, and sports, diversions that once were a comfort to working class men and women, have been co-opted by leftist political causes, making a day at the ballpark or a Saturday night movie at home or at the theater obnoxious. The badgering never stops!
On top of that, the working man has been priced out of ballgames, thanks to the stratospheric salaries demanded by players' agents and the resulting extortionist prices for tickets and concessions.
For the price of a case of shitty light beer, at the ballpark you can have one, maybe two pints of the same. For the price of two packs of hot-dogs, buns, and all the condiments you can get one cold, stale hot dog with nasty counter condiments.
But if you are well-to-do, you are accommodated with gourmet concessions, even restaurants where you can suck up your chardonnay and quiche while watching the game on the TV over the bar (or not) while the contest takes place on the field.
P.S.
Don't get me started on the goddamned "pitch clock" and the prospect of replacing home-plate umpires with cameras.
Don't get me started on the goddamned "pitch clock" and the prospect of replacing home-plate umpires with cameras.
I recently got back into baseball during the last World Series, and been watching way too many videos about the pitch clock thing, and well, the games themselves were getting longer because of batters doing all sorts of shenanigans at the plate, pitchers doing useless pick-off attempts so their managers can warm up their relievers on time, and other various nonsense, and the length of games is back to where it was in the 80s and 90s.
I'm lukewarm on the pitch clock; at the very least in my opinion it should be either relaxed or removed for the playoffs. The extra innings rule change becoming permanent is 100x more of an affront to the game than the pitch clock could ever be in my opinion.
It occurs to me that I am nostalgic for a kind of baseball that is extinct, which was prevalent when we were still a mostly agrarian country and our lives accommodated the harvest and the seasons.
Now that's boring. it doesn't even play well on contemporary TV with its hundreds of channels of shit. We're too impatient and distracted to just shut up, space out, relax, or get wired on stats/scorekeeping.
Minor league ball is where its at for me these days, at least when it comes to live games.
Movies, TV, and sports, diversions that once were a comfort to working class men and women, have been co-opted by leftist political causes, making a day at the ballpark or a Saturday night movie at home or at the theater obnoxious. The badgering never stops!
On top of that, the working man has been priced out of ballgames, thanks to the stratospheric salaries demanded by players' agents and the resulting extortionist prices for tickets and concessions.
For the price of a case of shitty light beer, at the ballpark you can have one, maybe two pints of the same. For the price of two packs of hot-dogs, buns, and all the condiments you can get one cold, stale hot dog with nasty counter condiments.
But if you are well-to-do, you are accommodated with gourmet concessions, even restaurants where you can suck up your chardonnay and quiche while watching the game on the TV over the bar (or not) while the contest takes place on the field.
P.S.
Don't get me started on the goddamned "pitch clock" and the prospect of replacing home-plate umpires with cameras.
I recently got back into baseball during the last World Series, and been watching way too many videos about the pitch clock thing, and well, the games themselves were getting longer because of batters doing all sorts of shenanigans at the plate, pitchers doing useless pick-off attempts so their managers can warm up their relievers on time, and other various nonsense, and the length of games is back to where it was in the 80s and 90s.
I'm lukewarm on the pitch clock; at the very least in my opinion it should be either relaxed or removed for the playoffs. The extra innings rule change becoming permanent is 100x more of an affront to the game than the pitch clock could ever be in my opinion.
It occurs to me that I am nostalgic for a kind of baseball that is extinct, which was prevalent when we were still a mostly agrarian country and our lives accommodated the harvest and the seasons.
Now that's boring. it doesn't even play well on contemporary TV with its hundreds of channels of shit. We're too impatient and distracted to just shut up, space out, relax, or get wired on stats/scorekeeping.
Minor league ball is where its at for me these days, at least when it comes to live games.