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[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by packs

I just feel like you guys are part of this constant, if I may borrow from Lost, where people of a certain age just don't like current things anymore. I feel like you would have been interchangeably annoyed with every new iteration of the game, from catchers wearing pads, to fielders wearing gloves and on up to the 162 game season not being a real 154 gamer or being upset they moved the fences in. I understand the nostalgia that probably drives these feelings. Being a kid is fun and when you realize you've gotten older, you just want things to be like they were when you were a kid. And every new kid isn't getting to experience the best of life like you did. But you're missing out on a lot when you think that way because modern life isn't so terrible either.

Aaron Judge is not Babe Ruth but he did hit 62 homers. If I put myself into the future where I'm asking an older guy about what it was like to see Judge hit 62 homers, I'd be pretty let down if they said they didn't know because baseball wasn't stealing a lot of bases then, so they weren't watching anymore.

It is called preference and we are entitled to preferences the last I checked. Change is great. I welcome the concept in my life but that does not mean that all changes sit well. There are a lot of things about the game of baseball today that make me a very casual fan of the game. Maybe that is my loss but I am not going to spend my time doing something I do not enjoy. Football has changed a great deal too over the decades but I love the game more with those changes.

[packs]

I'm talking about a general angst that seems to be present among the aging that stretches over a variety of casual interests, like music, movies, sports, etc. I think there's a lot of nostalgia tied up in this dislike of modernity. I realize that the individual preferences that exist within this realm, like what specifically you don't like, are there but I still think it's part of a larger and ever-present trend throughout all of time.

[Peter_Spaeth]

I can't find it but in Ken Burns' book he quotes a rant about how current players and the game in general just don't stack up to players of the past. LOL it was from 1914.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

I'm talking about a general angst that seems to be present among the aging that stretches over a variety of casual interests, like music, movies, sports, etc. I think there's a lot of nostalgia tied up in this dislike of modernity. I realize that the individual preferences that exist within this realm, like what specifically you don't like, are there but I still think it's part of a larger and ever-present trend throughout all of time.

What I call "nostalgia bias" is HUGE on the Board. Not a criticism, I suffer from it myself.