quite so. last time I went to a game I without exaggeration couldn't talk to the person next to me for most of it because it was simply too loud. the modern experience of a baseball game is enduring a wall of sound up until one half second before the pitcher's delivery (which the rules say still must be delivered without distraction, although i'm sure that'll change soon enough), and then again the moment the pitch passes the batter or he makes contact. it is unbearable.
ironically, minor league baseball, perennial moneymaking spectacle, is much quieter and truer to what attending a baseball game felt like in 1960.
That's my nightmarethe preponderance of American pop music is based on the beat of two and four," he says. "You'll have a lot of cultural influences that cause people to do one and three. I remember being in the Vienna Stadthalle — the town hall in Vienna, with about 12,000 people in it — and it was, like, Teutonic.
This was an amusing piece, mostly because it almost reads like a parody of some old-school #lolbrooksy elite lamenting the demise of his peaceful sophisticated sport. I still can't tell if it's deliberate or not. Then again, I haven't been to a game in almost 10 years, maybe it's gotten a lot worse since then.Emmett Hare is a political consultant in Brooklyn.
i agree with the noise thing, but i hate the attempt to tie in the game speed stuff in with it baseball games have never been longer, and it's mostly because of slow ass pitchers and batters stepping out of the box for 15 seconds to stick their thumbs in their butts bring on pitch clocks that are actually enforced, and bring in limits on the number of times you can step out per at bat