Punished with the Bills??!! Are you sure youi don’t need grief counselling?
I follow you on the MLB channel. I, unfortunately, get it as part of my cable and I also feel sick every time I watch a game on TV until the announcers say something so stupid I wonder who hires them. And that goes for the MLB channel on their followup descriptions post game.
I’m an ex-player, college, and umpire, as high as class A officiating, and I have been a student of the game since the mid fifties. My failing health chased me out. But I can promise you, I know when a player or coach screws up and it sickens me for the announcers to blame it on the umpires, bad hops, the sun or shadows, or the dust in the air and think people with some history believe them. But the further vexing is they probably do as the fans have been force fed a substandard game, with lowered mounds, illegal pitches based upon the ball and what gets on it, and a ball wound so tight I’m surprised the scene from The Natural when the ball disintegrates doesn’t actually happen. They have hot bats, hot balls, and a list of foreign players trained from age three and up in schools by the parent clubs to keep the contracts down for a majority of the players so they can establish their stars. Is everybody a potential superstar in baseball? Are there no journeymen players anymore. And if I hear the phrase, “they do it as well as anyone in the game,” again, my lunch will be gone.
I also remember the NY Giants. (Lord, haven’t heard that name in a long time) I can even tell you the starting lineup from their last year in the Polo Ground.
No, the game has been ruined with money, questionable actions by owners and unions, and a really good media program to protect it. Sad.
rwood