Perception is reality, the saying goes. Modern players can never transcend time, athletes only care about the money and the fan is never wrong. Yet, all you need to do is dig a little deeper to find the truth. As a freelance sportswriter, my job is to give the audience a story around what just happened. As a consumer, I expect that sports will always provide more than I bargained for. As a fan, my hopes are to be enlightened by more than points. Welcome to the mind of a sports scribe.
So if I voted before this post went up, it doesn't count as early voting? I'm kinda disappointed.
To me, the question was easy - if a team is from Boston I'm more likely to be a fan, so I'm more likely to watch it. I'm not sure it's true in general, but there it definitely affects my viewing choices. (Although these days, I generally take whatever I can get on TV, which isn't much.)
This slow, rainy morning gives way to finally respond to comments.
It's still early voting in my eyes before it gets down to less than a week. Yet, in the spirit of shameless promotions and the current election landscape, using buzz words such as 'early voting' can only help the cause.
It's interesting because being in the 'major markets', we take our largess for granted, I think. Unless teams from smaller markets come to play our squads, a game between a team from Kansas City and one from Seattle may not tickle the fancy right away.
With that said, I wonder how folks who are in places such as Milwaukee or Nashville respond when the national broadcasters advertise the bigger markets in their town. Far from scientific, it's a poll that at least attempts to reach those folks along with my fellow "Noo Yawkas and Bahstonians".
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So if I voted before this post went up, it doesn't count as early voting? I'm kinda disappointed.
To me, the question was easy - if a team is from Boston I'm more likely to be a fan, so I'm more likely to watch it. I'm not sure it's true in general, but there it definitely affects my viewing choices. (Although these days, I generally take whatever I can get on TV, which isn't much.)
This slow, rainy morning gives way to finally respond to comments.
It's still early voting in my eyes before it gets down to less than a week. Yet, in the spirit of shameless promotions and the current election landscape, using buzz words such as 'early voting' can only help the cause.
It's interesting because being in the 'major markets', we take our largess for granted, I think. Unless teams from smaller markets come to play our squads, a game between a team from Kansas City and one from Seattle may not tickle the fancy right away.
With that said, I wonder how folks who are in places such as Milwaukee or Nashville respond when the national broadcasters advertise the bigger markets in their town. Far from scientific, it's a poll that at least attempts to reach those folks along with my fellow "Noo Yawkas and Bahstonians".
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