I moved my home last week and as a result of poor service from Comcast, found myself without cable TV and Internet service for a few days. Fantasy baseball life is not the same without the convenience of technology – but I survive.
In fact, I thrived. I listened to the Twins on the radio, one of my favorite pastimes, even when TV is available. (Dan Gladden, by the way, is a great analyst – if you know what it is he’s tying to say. Grammar and baseball don’t by necessity belong together.) And, I reunited myself with morning-after newspaper boxscores.
The glory days of boxscores in our local rag are likely behind us. Heck, you can get boxscores on-line during games, updated instantaneously. Anticipation of results for your favorite fantasy studs and duds has gone by the wayside. Why wait.
Well, waiting was fun. I went to bed a few nights not knowing much of my daily fantasy fate. I couldn’t wait to get to a store and buy a newspaper the next morning. I poured over the boxscores like a little kid in a candy store; opening a handful of bubble-gum filled baseball card packs.
The tech world is great, and makes the fantasy sports world go ’round. A pause in the need-to-know habit was refreshing, and reminded me how OK life will be if I miss an evening or two of instant information.
