Honestly, I left baseball years ago. I don’t follow it. I was the prototype boy of the 1970s who ran to the local convenience store to buy a pack of cards with a dime (or whatever it cost) and hoped to get Fred Norman or Ken Griffey if not Johnny Bench and Pete Rose. The little boy in me still exists though is dormant. I don’t watch but I look at scores when the situation presents itself. I did watch the two shutouts but in total I have maybe watched 10 games in the past 10 years.
I’ve been addicted to Reds baseball since I was 5. All the losing and the strikes never dissuaded me. After walking away this year, I was very surprised how little I missed it. I am now in the same boat you’re in. I think I’m done.
It’s really hard to watch these days. The 3+ hour games, analytics robots in the dugouts “managing”, the stupid gesticulating by the players after every play. It’s just not very enjoyable. I do enjoy reading about all of the characters that played and managed the game in its rich history.
Understandable - today’s MLB just isn’t the same game we loved back then.