I am tres fatigue this morning. I started falling asleep on the sofa around midnight watching the red Sox pummel the Rockies 13-1 in the 8th inning. I figured the lead was enough to win, so I finally went up to bed.
I hate to be a crank, but it is fairly evident that sitting by yourself on the sofa watching an entire baseball game on TV is just a colossal waste of time. If you are with a crowd at a sports bar or actually at the baseball park, you have some distractions from the zillions of TV commercials and fast-cut filler video clips that they show between pitches.
It’s almost like being on the internet for cripes sake – Not Free! You are paying for the content that you want by letting them bombard you with popup ads, crawling messages, cute and clever sound effects, teasing taglines and unwanted eye trash[1].
If you sorted out all the hype and promo, you would get maybe 90 minutes of Game - Instead of 4 and a half hours of Lame. How can they expect fans who have to go to school/work the next morning to be able to stay up to watch a game that doesn’t end until 1AM or later?
Die-hard followers of baseball call me a “Fair weather fan.” This does not bother me. It is a fact that I have not watched a complete baseball game during the regular season. I have proudly not paid for a ticket to a professional sporting event since the baseball strike of 1981. [2]
I don’t see how you can be a devoted fan of a team when they trade away your favorite players every year? If you were a fan of the rock band, Boston, during the 80’s you might be more than aggravated if they had traded the smooth harmonic vocals of Brad Delph for Aerosmith’s screamer - Steve Tyler.
Music fans expect the same guys to show up at every appearance. Sports teams should do likewise. The Red Sox have let some of their greatest players like Roger Clemens, Nomar, Pedro, (to name just a few) slide through their contractural fingers - and then come back to beat us – I mean them.
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I hate to be a crank, but it is fairly evident that sitting by yourself on the sofa watching an entire baseball game on TV is just a colossal waste of time. If you are with a crowd at a sports bar or actually at the baseball park, you have some distractions from the zillions of TV commercials and fast-cut filler video clips that they show between pitches.
It’s almost like being on the internet for cripes sake – Not Free! You are paying for the content that you want by letting them bombard you with popup ads, crawling messages, cute and clever sound effects, teasing taglines and unwanted eye trash[1].
If you sorted out all the hype and promo, you would get maybe 90 minutes of Game - Instead of 4 and a half hours of Lame. How can they expect fans who have to go to school/work the next morning to be able to stay up to watch a game that doesn’t end until 1AM or later?
Die-hard followers of baseball call me a “Fair weather fan.” This does not bother me. It is a fact that I have not watched a complete baseball game during the regular season. I have proudly not paid for a ticket to a professional sporting event since the baseball strike of 1981. [2]
I don’t see how you can be a devoted fan of a team when they trade away your favorite players every year? If you were a fan of the rock band, Boston, during the 80’s you might be more than aggravated if they had traded the smooth harmonic vocals of Brad Delph for Aerosmith’s screamer - Steve Tyler.
Music fans expect the same guys to show up at every appearance. Sports teams should do likewise. The Red Sox have let some of their greatest players like Roger Clemens, Nomar, Pedro, (to name just a few) slide through their contractural fingers - and then come back to beat us – I mean them.
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[1] I wonder what will happen to the economy when the advertisers and sponsors finally realize that we have developed countermeasures to totally ignore their messages.
[2] That’s when I realized that these guys see themselves as “workers” not “players” or even “entertainers.” Why should I pay money to watch someone work? Watching college or even High School teams is actually more exciting because the players are not in it for the money.
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