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A Melancholy Tale

     They say that all good things must end someday. -- Chad and Jeremy

     The C.S.O. and I decided to do something yesterday that I wouldn’t have predicted even two weeks ago. That is: we decided to terminate our cable-TV service.

     We’d had it for quite a while – nearly forty years. A great part of the reason is that I’m a massive New York Yankees fan, and she’s a die-hard New York Rangers fan. Going to games in person costs us more time, effort, and annoyance than the enjoyment we get from them, so we’ve preferred to watch them when they’re telecast.

     But today we have the spectacle of millionaire athletes claiming to be “oppressed,” of their colleagues taking a knee during the national anthem, and of club owners and executives kowtowing to the Black Lives Matter crap. Baseball and ice hockey, the sports we watched to be free of our cares and the troubles of the world for just a couple of hours, had been politicized, and in the very worst way. We couldn’t enjoy them any more.

     So I called our provider and terminated the TV service. The company representative asked why, and I told her. Her reaction was sad: “Well, we can’t do much about that.” I wasn’t about to argue.

     I suppose there will be spinoff benefits. I’ll be saving about $100 per month. Also, we’ll have more time to work, more time to read, and more time to think. But those are the things we retreated into sports fandom to get away from for a little while.

     Ironically, among the reasons sports are enjoyable to the fan are that:

1. We can grasp the rules of the game;
2. And they don’t change while it’s being played.

     (Yeah, yeah, I know: the Pine Tar game. But that was an exceptional exception.) Compare the relative stability of the rules of pro sports to our current social and political turmoil.

     As I write this, it occurs to me that there are probably others in the same boat: persons who have cable-TV subscriptions mainly if not exclusively to bring them sports telecasts. How many of them are wholly disgusted by what’s happened to pro sports? How many will elect to “tough it out” until sanity and decency return, and how many will “cut the cord” rather than endure it? If the latter are numerous enough, the cable-TV providers will take a lot of damage.

     I’ve been “filling the gap” by watching snooker videos on YouTube. They’ve made me a big fan of Ronnie O’Sullivan. However, there aren’t all that many really good ones, and Beth finds them boring. Maybe we’ll start watching Australian rules football. Can you get that over the Internet?

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