I wrote on the heartbreak of baseball in the last post. My main heartbreak has been the realization that the time I grew up with is just a bad organization. My second heartbreak is I am far removed from a Major League team where I live now and it’s just hard to keep up.

This article helps me understand WHY it is so hard to keep up. We’re inundated with sports opinion 24 hours a day. It comes in massive ways. I have no hope of catching up. Even in baseball, the shift has been to graphics and calculating trajectory and speed of the ball off the bat and they talk about exit velocity and I’m thinking… WHHAAAAATTTTT????

It just keeps coming!

When I was out of college and living in the KC area there was a sports talk show on one station for three hours in the afternoon Monday through Friday. They could cover the Royals in season, the Chiefs in season, and local NCAA colleges. Because it was limited in time, they had to get to the story and you heard the story ONCE. It was golden. Those three hours COUNTED every day.

Then… sportstalk became a “thing.” They had to fill the airwaves 24 hours a day 7 days a week and that just isn’t possible. The hosts began to talk more about themselves than the subject at hand. They had to figure out more and more “angles” to talk about any particular sport or game… and then just dump out their opinion on something over and over.

When Moneyball was published, you had to do a deep dive into the book. You took your time with the subject. The 24 hour sportstalk cycle on the radio, podcasts, TV, and on an one just doesn’t allow for a deep dive into ANYTHING. And my mind is MUSH.

And still… I love this game. Baseball.

And without any charts, graphs, velocity mumbo jumbo, you can still enjoy the game watching a guy like Elly De La Cruz DO THIS.

I LOVE this game.