So,
if it’s a new year, why do I feel so old?
Michele and I barely made it to midnight this morning. I probably woke up the same time my daughter
was falling asleep. Ah, to be young
again.
I’ve
reached that point in life where I need to guard against the tendency to break
out in spontaneous lectures that begin with, “Why, you whippersnappers. Back when I was your age….” Really, who cares? But….
Among
the things I miss in this digital age of ours are The Sporting News, The Baseball
Register and The Baseball
Encyclopedia. I first stumbled upon
the Sporting News going to visit a
friend who was working behind the counter at Glendale Drugs on 52nd
and Kedzie on the Great Southwest Side (Why, you suburban whippersnappers….). Statistics from every league, oh my. Now, I have to go to mlb.com or a league website,
and it just isn’t the same. To switch
from the American Association to the International League was a lot easier when
you just had to turn the page.
The
same goes for the Register and the Encyclopedia. Maybe I was a master flipper of pages, a
skill that no longer seems much in demand these days. But I can’t warm up to baseballreference.com—there’s
no going back and forth to compare players.
Wait, I need to figure out how to do split screens. For three players? As I said, I was a master flipper of pages. And now I argue with my wife, who has
committed the treasonous act of buying a Kindle to read new books.
Happy
New Year’s, whippersnappers.
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