McCall St. Brewer
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I have decided I fall into a sub-category of EAC's which I will call EAC-II, or elitist ass curmudgeon. Why? I find more and more lately that I just don't like change. Now, some change I have certainly embraced whole-heartedly such as computers, the internet, mobile phones, digital cameras. But so many other changes in life just totally piss me off. And the really bad thing about it is that, as one gets older, time seems to go by faster. That means change seems to happen faster and more often, too.
What are some examples of things that really annoy me? Well, for one, I don't like it that the packaging on products that I buy on a regular basis has to change all the time. Now, it certainly is fine when, say, a cereal company decides its time to freshen up and modernize a cereal box, or a company decides their logo is tired and wants to modernize it. But why does Pepsi have to change the labels on their cans and bottles it seems like every two weeks or less. Roundy's, the company that owns the supermarkets we have here changes the packaging on their store brand products so often that half the time I don't even know what to look for to find their products.
Those are pretty minor things, though. The thing that really bugs me are changing fashions in sports uniforms. It seems like the only sports league that still has things under control at all in that are is the NFL. They make their players wear their uniforms right, even down to how they have to wear their socks. They have a number of teams such as the Cowboys, the Packers and even the hated Bears, who have classic uniforms that the teams dare not ever make any major changes to.
Basketball, though, has totally lost it in recent years, to the point where I think they have probably actually lost a significant number of fans. When it became the fashion to wear longer shorts it was okay for awhile when shorts just got a little longer. But it soon got way out of hand as far as I'm concerned, with the shorts down to their knees. Add to that all the shaved heads and tattoos and I think the players just look bizarre to a lot of potential fans. The worst thing about the long shorts, though, is at least on TV it makes the players look short. That negates one of the more interesting things about basketball, the fact that the players tend to be very tall.
While basketball has really lost it, baseball is the sport where the current uniform fashions really bug me. What happened to stirrups? When you see half the players wearing their pants hanging out around their shoes it just looks really sloppy to me. Baseball, the sport where tradition is more important than in other sports, really blew it when they didn't crack down on how the players wear their uniform pants. Two other things bug me (and I know that they will not change this soon, if ever, because it has to do with $$). The first is "alternate" jerseys. The home team should wear white and the visitors should wear gray. The minute one or both teams put on dark jerseys, it looks like a softball game. The second has to do with hats. It just galls me whenever I see a team such as the Cardinals, who traditionally have red hats, or the Mets with their blue hats, out their wearing black ones. The only reason they do that is because they think they will sell more hats to people who probably are not even baseball fans.
I think I may be over it now. Oh, wait. Microsoft decided that XP, a perfectly good operating system that didn't crash all the time, needed to be "fixed." So now we have Vista and half my programs won't work any more. Okay, now I'm done ranting. I need a homebrew.
What are some examples of things that really annoy me? Well, for one, I don't like it that the packaging on products that I buy on a regular basis has to change all the time. Now, it certainly is fine when, say, a cereal company decides its time to freshen up and modernize a cereal box, or a company decides their logo is tired and wants to modernize it. But why does Pepsi have to change the labels on their cans and bottles it seems like every two weeks or less. Roundy's, the company that owns the supermarkets we have here changes the packaging on their store brand products so often that half the time I don't even know what to look for to find their products.
Those are pretty minor things, though. The thing that really bugs me are changing fashions in sports uniforms. It seems like the only sports league that still has things under control at all in that are is the NFL. They make their players wear their uniforms right, even down to how they have to wear their socks. They have a number of teams such as the Cowboys, the Packers and even the hated Bears, who have classic uniforms that the teams dare not ever make any major changes to.
Basketball, though, has totally lost it in recent years, to the point where I think they have probably actually lost a significant number of fans. When it became the fashion to wear longer shorts it was okay for awhile when shorts just got a little longer. But it soon got way out of hand as far as I'm concerned, with the shorts down to their knees. Add to that all the shaved heads and tattoos and I think the players just look bizarre to a lot of potential fans. The worst thing about the long shorts, though, is at least on TV it makes the players look short. That negates one of the more interesting things about basketball, the fact that the players tend to be very tall.
While basketball has really lost it, baseball is the sport where the current uniform fashions really bug me. What happened to stirrups? When you see half the players wearing their pants hanging out around their shoes it just looks really sloppy to me. Baseball, the sport where tradition is more important than in other sports, really blew it when they didn't crack down on how the players wear their uniform pants. Two other things bug me (and I know that they will not change this soon, if ever, because it has to do with $$). The first is "alternate" jerseys. The home team should wear white and the visitors should wear gray. The minute one or both teams put on dark jerseys, it looks like a softball game. The second has to do with hats. It just galls me whenever I see a team such as the Cardinals, who traditionally have red hats, or the Mets with their blue hats, out their wearing black ones. The only reason they do that is because they think they will sell more hats to people who probably are not even baseball fans.
I think I may be over it now. Oh, wait. Microsoft decided that XP, a perfectly good operating system that didn't crash all the time, needed to be "fixed." So now we have Vista and half my programs won't work any more. Okay, now I'm done ranting. I need a homebrew.
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