terabthia2
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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Re: NE-Pitt Gets Higher Boston TV Ratings Than Any Sox Postseason Game Except WS Clin
162 games vs. 16 games. You do the math on that one.
You can't watch baseball the way you watch football. If you are/were a fan, you have to "switch gears" and remember how to watch baseball.
I think there really is something to the shortening of people's attention spans over the past couple of decades or so and need for instant gratification that has exponentially increased in society as a big factor. Football much more easily feeds these needs than baseball. Hence, that's my theory for how football became #1. (shrug) It is what it is, I suppose.
Baseball can be fun, but you have to get in the right mindset to enjoy it. I always have to remember to do this when I switch from Pats to Sox.
Also, it's not going away. It may not be the #1 sport anymore, but it's not going the way of the dodo bird...sorry, haters. It will always have plenty of fans. And as long as those fans have kids, there WILL be kids who will still want to play it. Maybe not as many as before, but if there were no kids left to enjoy the game, as some would have you believe, then the LLWS, for example, would be extinct by now, wouldn't it?
And football status as the #1 sport is far from a given from here on in. Just look at some of the things swirling about that Goodell & co. have to deal with a the moment. Just sayin'. Football could falter someday and something else could take its place. It could be baseball again or it could be something else.
We shall see.
162 games vs. 16 games. You do the math on that one.
You can't watch baseball the way you watch football. If you are/were a fan, you have to "switch gears" and remember how to watch baseball.
I think there really is something to the shortening of people's attention spans over the past couple of decades or so and need for instant gratification that has exponentially increased in society as a big factor. Football much more easily feeds these needs than baseball. Hence, that's my theory for how football became #1. (shrug) It is what it is, I suppose.
Baseball can be fun, but you have to get in the right mindset to enjoy it. I always have to remember to do this when I switch from Pats to Sox.
Also, it's not going away. It may not be the #1 sport anymore, but it's not going the way of the dodo bird...sorry, haters. It will always have plenty of fans. And as long as those fans have kids, there WILL be kids who will still want to play it. Maybe not as many as before, but if there were no kids left to enjoy the game, as some would have you believe, then the LLWS, for example, would be extinct by now, wouldn't it?
And football status as the #1 sport is far from a given from here on in. Just look at some of the things swirling about that Goodell & co. have to deal with a the moment. Just sayin'. Football could falter someday and something else could take its place. It could be baseball again or it could be something else.
We shall see.