Hi there. I hope your Sunday is going as well as it has for the Mets.
As for me, I am having a great Sunday hanging out poolside.
In past years I would have listened to the Mets game. I don’t think I own a portable radio these days, so I used to listen on the MLB app on my phone. Long time readers, especially those who follow on twitter, know that in recents seasons the commercial levels were quite loud. Last year I decided not to get the app.
I could buy myself a cheap radio. WCBS does not have the WAHwah problem that WOR had….but the damage was already done by WOR. I learned to do just fine without listening to the Mets….and continue to just fine without listening to the Mets on their new home.
Oh, I can still follow the Mets. Every now and then I pick up my phone and look at twitter. Seems Cano is hurt. Seems the score was 11-0 last I looked. That’s good, LGM and FPR and all that….and I go on with my day.
These are the little things that break fandom. Over at the NFL they killed the 4pm window, so I decided not to get Red Zone this year and will “take my Sundays back.” There’s zero chance of me watching just the local game after a decade plus of NFL ADD….so the NFL and I will part as friends and I am sure they will do just fine without me.
The Mets do just fine without me on Sundays as well. They’ve done well without me these last few years without me on Saturday Nights which I “took back” a few years ago. And they do just fine without me after 10pm.
They are also going to have to do just fine without the next generation in my household. The kids…don’t care. They just don’t care. Even the 2015 World Series…I couldn’t get my kids to look at it.
I know half of you are all excited right now. 11-0 or however the game turned out (I assume they won but can’t be bothered to look). You’re going to tell me I am so negative. That’s fine. Don’t care. Life is nice here poolside. I’m looking forward to watching most of the action tomorrow. I’m going to knock out two or three blog posts now. But listen to a Mets game on Sunday afternoon? No thanks. You broke the habit MLBAM. That’s on you. You should have fixed the commercial levels when I asked.
