SJ, I have become convinced by some of the younger fans on this site that there is not a love and a joy of the sport.<\/p>\n
Some of the fans on this site only view this sport having only experienced success by their team, and are only able to handle<\/p>\n
non-success by cutting their own team down, rather than giving credit to other teams. Losses are only about what their team didn’t do, not what the other team did.<\/p>\n
There is another faction that views baseball only in a statistical manner. Players are automatons, broken down by stats that take all of the elements crucial to the flow of the game out of it.<\/p>\n
Others view the game only from a fantasy perspective. Both the game, and in elements. Magically transporting their team to different divisions, leagues and pretending that the comments contain substance, as if they could actually do that.<\/p>\n
Worst than all of that is the generation of “I know everything” that does not allow discussion or difference of opinion. New is bad. Change is bad.<\/p>\n
None of that is love or understanding of the game. It is fast-food baseball with garbage in garbage out reality.<\/p>\n
That is why you get the comments you do here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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