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LVDan · 10-04-2023, 11:01 AM

I was talking to my boss(who is a few years older than me at 58) about playoff baseball and mlb in general yesterday. I have memories of either the 79 or the 81 WS and how I think I remember a game being weekday early in the day and how baseball was such a big deal 40 years ago vs today. My teacher rolled in a stand with a 12” b/w so we could watch it after lunch while in class.
Baseball has fallen so far out of American public consciousness in the last 40 years in general. And yes, Tampa isn’t a great MLB town, the stadium sucks and is hard to get to but yeah…
Tuesday at 3pm for a wildcard game just doesn’t move the needle-at all.
Yes, the Yankees, Dodgers, Bosox or Cubs is a little better but the reality is that it’s pretty much just us older white guys who are still into it.

10-04-2023, 11:01 AM	#100
LVDan Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 17,612	I was talking to my boss(who is a few years older than me at 58) about playoff baseball and mlb in general yesterday. I have memories of either the 79 or the 81 WS and how I think I remember a game being weekday early in the day and how baseball was such a big deal 40 years ago vs today. My teacher rolled in a stand with a 12” b/w so we could watch it after lunch while in class. Baseball has fallen so far out of American public consciousness in the last 40 years in general. And yes, Tampa isn’t a great MLB town, the stadium sucks and is hard to get to but yeah… Tuesday at 3pm for a wildcard game just doesn’t move the needle-at all. Yes, the Yankees, Dodgers, Bosox or Cubs is a little better but the reality is that it’s pretty much just us older white guys who are still into it. __________________ So we cheated and we lied and we tested. And we never failed to fail; it was the easiest thing to do.