My first memories of baseball were the WPIX Yankee games with Phil Rizzuto and Bill White. I went to my first game in person when I was five and wondered why it was so quiet. I expected to hear play-by-play over the loudspeakers.
Flash-forward to me watching every inning of Game 5 of this year's Yankees-Red Sox series. In the eleventh inning, I got fed up with the play-by-play. I realized that no amount of pacing, crossing fingers, or anything else would impact the game. Neither did anything Joe Buck, Tim McCarver, and Al Leiter said from the booth, nor any questions the media asked. So, I turned down the volume on my set and watched the umpire's gestures.
I ought to watch more games this way.
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