Picture this: you’re watching baseball. Baseball, in the year of our lord 2024. In a world of one-handed catches by using the defender as the other hand, Olympic skateboarders doing this, and Jaylen Brown existing, you’re watching a guy wait 20 seconds to throw a ball at an invisible rectangle while another guy with a stick attempts to hit it an arbitrary distance. Another couple of guys stand far away picking grass, and half the players on a team may not touch a ball for three hours.
It’s August, and for Boston sports fans like myself, it’s days like these when I wonder what I’m doing with my life.