By Fernie Ruano Jr.
“I don’t know.”
“What? What is that?”
“Sorry. I haven’t watched a baseball game in 25 years.”
“I don’t even know what channel the World Series is going to be on.”
Just four answers. Just four FREAKING answers!
That’s all I got this morning after I decided I would walk around a popular Miami-neighborhood and ask a question apparently everybody was too cold to answer:
“Who do you think is going to win the World Series?”
Three of the five women polled – all appearing in their mid-30’s and bundled up as if it was snowing, not 71 degrees didn’t even bother to move their mouths; they just kept walking. One of the women said she dated a baseball player when she was in high school. The other just smiled at me.
Three of the men admitted they gave up on baseball in the 1990’s.
But I came across a 46-year-old banker who answered the question with more than 10 words.
“If you’re an old-time baseball fan, you should really enjoy this World Series. But to be honest with you, baseball has serious problems. I took my nephew out to a game in April and he was asking me to leave in the third inning. It’s really too slow for a lot of these kids.”
Oh well, I tried my best. I really did.
By the way: It’s San Francisco vs. Kansas City; Giants vs. Royals. And that screaming you hear coming from Beverly Hills, California is because about 13 people are convincing a team of baseball producers at Fox Sports that they’re family really, really need them. Good luck!
NOTRE DAME @ FLORIDA STATE (8 P.M., ABC): Brain Kelly acts like a 12-year-old on the sidelines; like he enjoys screaming - really loud - at his players and stuff. Jameis Winston is still a free man. And Jimbo Fisher's wife probably bakes some mean chocolate chip cookies. Advantage Seminoles.
SAN FRANCISCO @ DENVER (8:25 P.M., NBC): Jim Harbaugh hasn't even decided on his Halloween mask and already most of the talking heads have him out of San Francisco by mid-February. I love Papa John's pizza. And the Broncos
MIAMI @ CHICAGO (1 P.M., CBS); It's difficult to think a game in mid-October can determine a team's season, unless you're the Dolphins and facing the Bears after getting punched in the stomach by Aaron Rodgers. Miami's defense is leaking, too; especially in the secondary. Matt Forte is playing with himself right about NOW!
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