[highlight][highlight]So many jumping off points where people say "The game is ruined". Yet there's MLB still rocking the changes and few have jumped off, at least if one can believe the continuing increase of revenues.
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No game is the same. It was always better the way we learned to like a game. I don't believe people leave but I do think their interest level wanes. I do believe people quit spending on it but yet they still follow there team.
And others learn to accept the changes, still enjoy being consumed by the game and still have that certain air of knowing the young fans today will be saying the same things when they get older.
As David Bowie once sang, "I watch the ripples change their size, but they never leave the stream Of warm impermanence. So the days float through my eyes, but still days seem the same. And these children that you spit on, as they try to change their worlds. They're immune to your consultations, they're quite aware of what they're going through."
I just hope if you find a jumping off point you think back to what you enjoyed and not focus on the issue where you said, "Enough." If you can't carry with the game, carry the joy you did have and share that instead.
In other words, the game is flourishing, so you and I must be "so called" fans.
I love people.
I was in a bar once watching a game. A guy next to me was as into the game as I was. I enjoyed talking with him and listening to him.
Then, Jack had to join us, I guess.
The guy began to tell me about how great baseball used to be. No need to repeat it. Your list sort of covers it.
I looked at him and asked, "if baseball's so bad, then give me some reasons why you like it so much.
So, baseball's not perfect in some people's way of looking at it. Neither am I. Neither is anything else.
It's perfect enough.
"So it seems that the world keeps on turnin' but so what?
I don't doubt it, it just keeps on the move."
Skin It Back.