Baseball more enjoyable when listened to on radio
Maybe it’s just lonely farmers that listen to late-night radio. To suggest a political affiliation here, an affinity for the dark, the moods of the night, those solitary thoughts, we who gather around the muffled glow of radios in the nether hours.
My childhood was uniquely radio, to reference baseball. As a sport, baseball was intrinsically designed for a specific leisure, in person to include hot dogs, beer and popcorn. Basic fact is baseball is boring to watch, at least most of the time. Baseball is like cotton candy, 99.67 percent hollow, with long meditative bouts of three balls, one strike.
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