00:00I think there's three examples that have gone on in pro sports
00:05that I don't think you can argue that things are worse now than they were,
00:09and it's not just an old man take.
00:11It's just someone having experience in the way that the games have changed.
00:15It's just not as entertaining.
00:17Like, I'm sorry.
00:17Now, maybe it's a recency thing,
00:19or maybe I forget what it was like really when I was watching these games,
00:23but I don't think so.
00:24And those three examples is one we just talked about it
00:26with the strikeout not being as big of a deal
00:30and the launch angle and its home run or bust or all of that stuff in baseball.
00:33We've talked about it a million times.
00:34The other one is when bad NBA teams shoot too many three-pointers
00:39and everybody tries to be the Golden State Warriors dynasty
00:42when they don't have Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.
00:45Bad product.
00:46And I think another one is the NFL officiating
00:50when it comes to hits and trying to protect players.
00:55Now, I totally understand why in the lawsuits and the movie concussion
01:00and you want to keep the quarterbacks healthy,
01:03but there's just so much of that ticky-tack nonsense
01:06where I'm going to tap a guy on the helmet
01:08and all of a sudden it's a 15-yard penalty that affects the game.
01:10So those three things in those three sports to me,
01:13it's indisputable that the product is not as good as it was.
01:18Now, I don't even think with the attention spans that we have now
01:22that it would matter if it was the way that it used to be.
01:25It's just so many regular season games in all of these sports.
01:28But there's no doubt about it that these games now have certain elements about it
01:34over the course of a long regular season
01:36that makes it more difficult and less enjoying to watch
01:40than it was 30 years ago.
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