Televised baseball starts
tonight and normally I could care less and normally I would not
devote time and space to be writing about major-league baseball but
this is the pandemic in the new way and everything's different.
It's not that I hate the
sport I don't, I just do not have the patience to watch a game that
drags on for hours literally. I think a lot of people attest my
indifference to the sport is not plain dislike to the fact that I'm a
disable individual but that's not the case at all. When I is
able-bodied I was pretty much forced to play the game because all my
peers played the game when school got out whether it was Little
League when I was very small probably starting around the third grade
or so to playing right before high school. Our junior high school did
not necessarily have a team but we still played in the summer some
form of organized baseball. However my then the game was becoming way
to competitive in the friends that I had sacrificed my summers for
were growing apart for me and so they went their way and I wouldn't
mind. That's just not baseball fishing is another issue. I was
speaking with the folks today at coffee and of course today be in the
eve of a major state holiday means a lot of people are either going
fishing or reveling in past fishing experiences. Since I'm the only
male that traditionally attends this copy group I have to endure
stories about the kids fishing. Some are just must be the time for
boring events or maybe just because they're free in many cases.
Fishing my parents loved fishing as my brothers and sisters probably
did to I could barely stand the time that we would group is a family
stuff the car or truck or whatever with gear, coolers stuffed with
sandwiches fruit and whatever else mom thought we needed as well as
the big thermos jug of iced Kool-Aid or whatever knockoff was
cheapest. It's not like we ever had real pop of any kind police that
I remember. Then we had to drive for what seemed like hours till we
got to a spot that theoretically had “potential”.
Fishing equipment is
inherently stinky usually because it housed dead fish at one time or
another and we all know about dead fish and stink. I would be given a
fishing pole when I was very young it would be baited for me and I
would trudge down to the water and throw the line in as far as I
could more than once I actually threw pole away. I did this at
division them or diversion dam whatever. You think my folks would've
learned. I just couldn't figure out why he would be entertaining to
throw worms in the water to see officially the and then pull the fish
in, wet, slimy, active stinky beasts but you still had to cut their
guts out and scale, chop the heads off and then have to eat at some
point in time. Sadly if not luckily we didn't catch a lot of fish at
least I did not. All I knew is that efficient adventure was lost time
for however long it would be not only an travel to and from that time
during that was lost time but I guess it was better than staying home
from throwing hay on the rack.
Tonight is baseball. Two
teams play each other in an empty stadium because the pandemic. The
American people is so selfish they're willing to make these people
play baseball in a dangerous situation just fulfill their shallow
needs for summer recreation/entertainment. I might even watch maybe
if I can find the event for free somewhere. I'm sure between Amazon
prime and Netflix someone is trying to make money on the game. So I'm
not watching the game per se as much as I'm watching how the game is
going to be televised, what the color folks are going to say about
the game itself and how they going to do that in empty stadium. I'll
be interested see what kind of numbers to tune in and if this will
slack the thirst for the boys of summer…
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