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Michael Lewis is quite right.
There are indeed events that are nearly un-understandable at the site of the action. Professional football is one such. National political conventions are another.
Seeing and understanding the Washington Redskins play can be best accomplished by watching the action on television, with instant replay, freeze frame and TIVO. That is one reason I never even tried to get Season's tickets, which are very very difficult to get. I have been invited by friends and have attended some games, but it is not as informative as seeing the action in the living-room...
These days my passion for football is much diminished. I like less brutal sports: i.e. baseball and basketball.
National political conventions are probably more confusing. In a closely-contesed race only a handful of people know what is going on. And they are not so sure of themselves either.
The commentators, who are spun and re-spun --- don't know much either.
But, because politics was my business, I attended every convention of both major political parties from 1972 to 2000: Houston, San Francisco, New Orleans, NYNY, Detroit etc.
They are not good-for-nothing.
You meet new people, re-acquaint yourself with people you knew before, pick up the gossip, sometimes get some face-time on national televsion, get a fresh date-line for a column, --- both in order to promote your own deeply-held views. I believe I have been right much more often than wrong.
I have a good batting average.
Ben
Michael Lewis is quite right.
There are indeed events that are nearly un-understandable at the site of the action. Professional football is one such. National political conventions are another.
Seeing and understanding the Washington Redskins play can be best accomplished by watching the action on television, with instant replay, freeze frame and TIVO. That is one reason I never even tried to get Season's tickets, which are very very difficult to get. I have been invited by friends and have attended some games, but it is not as informative as seeing the action in the living-room...
These days my passion for football is much diminished. I like less brutal sports: i.e. baseball and basketball.
National political conventions are probably more confusing. In a closely-contesed race only a handful of people know what is going on. And they are not so sure of themselves either.
The commentators, who are spun and re-spun --- don't know much either.
But, because politics was my business, I attended every convention of both major political parties from 1972 to 2000: Houston, San Francisco, New Orleans, NYNY, Detroit etc.
They are not good-for-nothing.
You meet new people, re-acquaint yourself with people you knew before, pick up the gossip, sometimes get some face-time on national televsion, get a fresh date-line for a column, --- both in order to promote your own deeply-held views. I believe I have been right much more often than wrong.
I have a good batting average.
Ben
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