Beer and Conversation with Pigweed and Crowhill
Society & Culture
P&C drink and review Hell or High Watermelon from 21st Amendment Brewery, then, with special guest Longinus, discuss the cost of professional sports.
Why are we, in the words of Pigweed, willing to spend so much money to watch grown men play children’s games?
But that’s not to the point. The boys are focused on the cost of a baseball or football game. Why has it increased so much? Is it worth it?
From 1970 to the present – in today’s dollars – the cost for a family of four to attend a baseball game is about 4x. Who pays this, and why?
Along with this increase in prices, we have an increase in coverage. When Pigweed was a lad, there was one, one-hour show on sports. Now, we have several 24x7 sports stations talking about sports all year long.
There’s also the moral question. In a world that can’t decide what a woman is, sports provides some clear guidelines. The player is either in or out. The ball is in the strike zone or it’s not.
Another angle – people can’t sit quietly with their own thoughts. They need a distraction. Every bar and restaurant has constant sports.
Is sports filling a hole left by the lack of religion, or community? Also, to what extent is this a public question? Is it in the local government’s interest to get people involved in local sports?
364: Two scary stories from HP Lovecraft
363: The Epstein sex scandal, means-tested tickets, and more
362: The Unabomber
361: JeBron James' I Promise School
360: Hawaii
359: Let the children lead?
358: Oliver Anthony, aka Chris Lunsford
357: 5 Kurt Vonnegut short stories
356: Ideal and planned cities. Hubris or genius?
355: Comments on the GOP debate
354: Game theory
353: Cracks in the intersectional coalition
352: Pigweed quizzes Crowhill on the Bible
351: The Manhattan Project and Oppenheimer
350: P&C were right again, of course
349: The hard problem of consciousness
348: The Suburbs - their history and present relevance
347: 5 short stories from John Cheever
346: Canada sucks!
345 Vivek Ramaswamy for President
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