A more exciting product.
This seems to be the goal now. Major League Baseball has a pitch clock, and a batter clock. And professional golf has LIV, with its blaring music, bermuda shorts, complicated graphics catering to the wagering crowd, and scripted player-fan interaction. Both are tailored to a younger audience, which apparently has a much shorter attention span than preceding generations.
I’ll admit to lamenting the changes, considering them to be more contrived concession than innovation. Refinement and patience seem to be getting crowded out of the picture, making way for the tired, boorish, got-to-have-it-now behavior associated with alcohol consumption and people who are unaccustomed to having to wait for anything.
This makes me an old fuddy-duddy, but that’s OK.
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