ballpark

when i was a kid, i used to watch baseball on tv with my dad. he would also listen to it on the radio. i thought it was his favourite sport, it was mine. i was surprised to discover as a teenager that football is his favourite sport. i have never in my life watched a football game with him. that strikes me odd. anyway, i was only ever allowed to watch 1.5 of tv a day. except one summer, my mom agreed to let me watch more whenever a baseball game was on. so i took that to my advantage, and watched the game simply because it allowed me the opportunity to watch more tv. however, come the next summer, she did not remember that arrangement, so it was only one summer of unlimited baseball. because of that, i have very positive associations with baseball. it's a relatively calm sport. it's slow moving with lots of dialogue. it's great white noise. the more you watch, the more attached to the individual players ones gets.

i dunno if it's eamon's interest in sports, or just the season of our lives, but brendan and i have gotten back into watching baseball. we figured out how to watch it online. the other day, i said to him "i wonder if there's a schedule we can print out so we can know when there's a game on". he said "we're turning into my grandparents".