Life was simpler back when that’s for sure. Sadly, there is no place where that is more true than the world of sports. Nowadays, the new world 🌎 look at athletics has reached às far down to include the pee-wee level.
Back When a game was just a game, sing it, Mr. McGraw !!!!
There is no doubt at all that I am grateful to be nearing the home stretch of life now because things are changing in a drastic manner. It started with 24/7 coverage from ESPN, took a turn for the worse when Sports Talk radio 📻 reached its next level, and when you added legalized gambling and social media, you have a full fledged circus 🎪.
Millions and sometimes billions of dollars 💸 are changing hands on a daily basis. We can pay an MLB player $400 million, but we can not afford the Pulaski team and the rest of the Appalachian League teams to remain part of minor league baseball ???
Hot takes, police 🚔 blotters, and people being paid by the truck 🚚 load to get you mad about something. Youth officials are coming under attack, literally under attack. The WNBA right now is going through its own circus, and it’s not helping the sport of basketball in any way, shape, or form.
Danny Glover had a great run in the Lethal Weapon movies 🎬 by saying, “I’m too old for this (stuff).”
Yes, I am just a dinosaur 🦕 who is swimming 🏊♀️ upstream, trying hard to shield 🛡 some of our youth by providing a safe place to say things like – this is little Johnny, and he is a baseball pitcher. His dad is a police officer, and his mom works down at the central office.
Blind support for folks who work for a living and are trying their best to raise their children in the best way they can is the mission. The world 🌎 is full of people like the ones I just described, and they deserve as safe of a place as possible to make it work.
Bill Gallimore & The road less traveled ! 