Tuesday, April 6, 2010

The Redhead Said You Shred the Cello, and I'm Jello Baby

Congratulations to Mr. Andrew M. Tuegel for correctly naming "Bullet the Blue Sky" by Larry Mullen, Jr., Adam Clayton, and those two other guys as the Monday Song of the Day.

Part XXIV (My Response)


I think there's something to your idea that we've all grown more attached to sports of late, but I'm not sure if that's because sports mean more to people in the 21st century or because we have so many more avenues to be connected to sports. Back in the 1940's, if you were a kid living in the Mississippi River Delta, and you loved Stan Musial and the St. Louis Cardinals, you had two realisitic ways of following the Cardinals: 1. The newspaper and 2. the radio. Other than that, you might dream about making the pilgrimmage to The 'Lou (thanks Jon Heintz and Mike Griff) to watch Stan the Man, but the radio and the newspaper were your two sources of Cardinals info.


Now, though? Well, a kid could wake up and look at his phone to see how Albert Pujols did in the Cardinals game the night before. If doesn't look at his phone, there's always the computer in the family room where he can hop on Cardinals.com (contrary to popular belief it's not a site run by the Catholic church). If his family doesn't have internet, they probably have TV where he can flip over to ESPN where they are running highlights 24 hours a day. If they don't have TV, he can listen in the family car to the local sports talk radio station. Failing all of those, he can look at that dinosaur of the media world, yes, a newspaper.


I paint that picture to emphasize that maybe we don't necessarily care more about sports now, it's just that they're around so darn much. With the advent of the internet, cable tv, mobile phone technology, things like sports that might have taken up a much smaller portion of the available broadcast/media world now have the opportunity to have their own networks, blogs, iPhone apps, etc, etc. Sports might just be that girl that we don't necessarily love too much, but we put up with her, because hey, she's around.

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At 9:53 AM, Blogger Prosso said...

El Scorcho by Weezer, from the Pinkerton album.

 

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