Getting older is a function of continuous breathing, made possible by somewhat healthy habits and a great cardiologist who could be counted on being at work at 3:00 A.M. one Saturday morning in 2020.
Sustained life means witnessing the same thing over and over again, e.g. war. Make your own list as to what to add that. Those who say we've "got to make sure this doesn't happen again" are deluding themselves. It probably already has. If it hasn't, it will. Just wait.
This might seem like a lot of philosophizing for writing about the topic that the NYT Sports Section has eliminated agate scores from their editions. No Standings. No short range notice of the upcoming schedule for teams. Less information, but LOTS of pictures.
It's almost as if the editors have adopted a belief that people can't read anymore. ENORMOUS photos fill the pages. Full page photos. It's not that we can't read, we're not allowed to. They can't write anymore.
I have to admit I missed that the agate scores and standings were not there as of yesterday. It wasn't until I saw someone's Tweet this morning mourning the passing that I realized, yep, that's what they did. The Times Sports Section is now a worthless POS.
The paper eliminated TV listings some time ago, and now apparently will refrain from giving us the upcoming baseball standings. Can you imagine opening a sports page that doesn't contain where the Mets are? Where the Yankees are? Where the Rangers, the Islanders and Devils are? Where anyone is in the standings? I guess the editors feel we all do everything on our cell phones, so why list anything? All the news that's fit to ignore
It was more than a lifetime ago when the teenagers in Brooklyn opened their favorite sports section in 1958 and realized they weren't going to learn the West Coast Dodger score because of the time difference. The Dodger and Giant games finished too late Eastern time to make the morning edition. No box scores to dissect.
The cutback in content continues. The paper no longer sends beat reporters to local games. Nada. There must be some belief that everyone is watching things on their smart phones. I have a smart phone. I use it as a phone. But then again, I'm over 70.
The problem with getting older becomes apparent more and more every day.
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