03-03-2021, 11:37 AM
i find that my interest in sports have changed over the course of my life. I don't think the pandemic did much for me vis-a-vis sports, other than to make me miss them terribly. I like the game-day, in-person experience at Giants games, and any Stanford game. I like televised sports, but less and less as time goes on, and I genuinely miss the social aspect.
Will the world go on without sports? Well, sure. The world will go on no matter what, but sports adds a great deal to the lives of millions -- particularly to people of limited achievement in the conventional sense. If it makes a minimum wage worker happy to wear an Oakland A's hat and follow them on line, and attend a few games a year...who's to say that's a bad thing? After all, FDR considered baseball to be so critically important to the nation's psyche, he didn't suspend major league baseball despite the dearth of ballplayers and financial resources.
Will the world go on without sports? Well, sure. The world will go on no matter what, but sports adds a great deal to the lives of millions -- particularly to people of limited achievement in the conventional sense. If it makes a minimum wage worker happy to wear an Oakland A's hat and follow them on line, and attend a few games a year...who's to say that's a bad thing? After all, FDR considered baseball to be so critically important to the nation's psyche, he didn't suspend major league baseball despite the dearth of ballplayers and financial resources.
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