World Series
Oct 28, 2021 14:33:34 #
Anybody watching the World Series? To me watching paint dry is about as exciting as a baseball game. Still another reason why I dumped my television set
Oct 28, 2021 14:48:45 #
Join a small number of others who have stopped watching television. I quit the boob tube after I ended my drinking career in the early '80s.
tramsey wrote:
Anybody watching the World Series? To me watching paint dry is about as exciting as a baseball game. Still another reason why I dumped my television set
Oct 28, 2021 15:09:04 #
anotherview wrote:
Join a small number of others who have stopped watching television. I quit the boob tube after I ended my drinking career in the early '80s.
When mine went out we decided not to get another. that was right before they came out with flat screens. haven't missed it at all
Oct 28, 2021 16:44:17 #
tramsey wrote:
Anybody watching the World Series? To me watching paint dry is about as exciting as a baseball game. Still another reason why I dumped my television set
Nope...
I'd rather watch the farm teams.
Lost interest in MLB years ago.
3 up, 3 down, 3 up, 3 down, 3 up, 3 down, .........
Oct 28, 2021 17:44:19 #
Oct 29, 2021 06:37:43 #
Tdearing
Loc: Rockport, TX
No, but I might try to watch a game. I never turn my TV on anymore in favor of reading from my Kindle library. Television, even well done, to me is not nearly as absorbing as a book. It creates everything for you in a flat seemingly 2 dimensional platform as opposed to the world ones brain will develop whilst reading a book. As a result of never turning the set on, I keep forgetting to revisit what a baseball game looks like in today's world. Last I looked, there seemed to be a whole lot more posturing in and out of the batter's box between pitches that made the game get a little monotonous.
Oct 29, 2021 06:47:49 #
tramsey wrote:
Anybody watching the World Series? To me watching paint dry is about as exciting as a baseball game. Still another reason why I dumped my television set
If you don’t have TV, how do you know the games have been boring? Lots of people are baseball fans, what motivates gratuitous denigration of their interest?
Oct 29, 2021 06:54:26 #
cdayton wrote:
If you don’t have TV, how do you know the games have been boring? Lots of people are baseball fans, what motivates gratuitous denigration of their interest?
The use of past tense?
Some people can sit there and watch 3 up, 3 down, 3 up, 3 down,3 up, 3 down;3 up, 3 down,3 up, 3 down;...
Some can't.
Oct 29, 2021 07:21:22 #
From your post, I see the difference in apprehension between television and a book.
A book directly presents intelligible facts and information involving primarily a cognitive process awaiting activation by a reader.
Television presents more as a streaming audio-visual means of acquiring understanding. The audience may remain essentially passive in its relation to the presentation.
Infant children absorb the colors, sounds, and animation of television minus the action of cognition.
Reading a book involves conscious awareness of ideas, facts, and information in the development of an argument or a position. The act of reading requires the full attention of the reader.
Of course, a book may entertain or inform, not unlike television. Yet, the two mediums differ in function.
My 2 cents.
A book directly presents intelligible facts and information involving primarily a cognitive process awaiting activation by a reader.
Television presents more as a streaming audio-visual means of acquiring understanding. The audience may remain essentially passive in its relation to the presentation.
Infant children absorb the colors, sounds, and animation of television minus the action of cognition.
Reading a book involves conscious awareness of ideas, facts, and information in the development of an argument or a position. The act of reading requires the full attention of the reader.
Of course, a book may entertain or inform, not unlike television. Yet, the two mediums differ in function.
My 2 cents.
Tdearing wrote:
No, but I might try to watch a game. I never turn ... (show quote)
Oct 29, 2021 07:50:02 #
Oct 29, 2021 08:53:21 #
I have watched most of the 2 games played so far. Good series. The playoffs were very entertaining. But my question is to those who commented that they don't have a TV now or haven't had one for a while (find it hard to believe, but possible). So what do you do at night or day to pass the time? Reading? Music listening? Just curious.
Oct 29, 2021 09:05:51 #
Niklon
Loc: Athens, Ga
I have watched and enjoyed both games. I find baseball and the strategic challenges it offers on every pitch entertaining. This apparently is not the case for you but I would challenge you to venture out next spring to a local college or high school and take some photos during a game. It might change your perspective.
Oct 29, 2021 09:12:26 #
Oct 29, 2021 09:20:18 #
tramsey wrote:
Anybody watching the World Series? To me watching paint dry is about as exciting as a baseball game. Still another reason why I dumped my television set
I don't watch sports other than motorsports. Too much political nonsense in team sports anymore. Wouldn't be without a TV though. Too much good stuff on History, Military History, Discovery etc..
Oct 29, 2021 09:40:45 #
We've not had a tele for 35 years.
Back the we were very much the odd ones out but nowadays, there seem to be more of us around here in the UK,
although still in a minority.
Back the we were very much the odd ones out but nowadays, there seem to be more of us around here in the UK,
although still in a minority.
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