My entire childhood was transferred to YouTube and various streaming services, which means that I now have the ability to learn TV anchors from the 80s and 90s under the soft neon lights. I will let you know that although I have always thought that 1982-1992 was the pinnacle of Western civilization, seeing Murphy Brown's simple behavior in primitive form gave me a great pause in my taste when I was young.

In that era, I think this represented the culmination of smart sitcom writing, but its excessive attention to current political issues, metaphorical retrogression, extensive performance, and blind reliance on the three-lens format made it almost impossible to watch in 2021. . This show is not smart. This show is Joanie Loves Chachi set up in the DC newsroom.

Even those great men regarded as eternal—the story of Seinfeld, the golden girl—have a bitterness that I cannot completely forgive. Is it too familiar? Does the endless viewing of comfort food make them stale and ruin the joke?

But recently I caught up with the last season of a sitcom I missed from 2020; it was still "shot in front of a live studio audience", and I felt like I was watching what McAlpin had when he had a tea room. The wicker furniture in the Miami living room has not changed; I have. culture has. We are now immersed in satire, multiverse and documentary-style comedy, and there is no turning back.

I wonder if this is because I have received training on what is interesting and what is not-the relative lack of options for us to choose from makes it difficult to compare shopping. Full House and Family Matters have poor predictability, but they are safe. Are they really funny, or am I only 10 years old?

The power to hone skills on the Catskill stage, or the power to be guided by these saints. Seinfeld may have deconstructed the theme of the sitcom ("Don't Hug, Don't Learn"), but it still falls into the level of weird neighbors.

This will not happen in baseball-if we allow it. The farther we go, the more we can appreciate the origin of the nine-inning first run of our sport. Leaving aside some obvious social issues (which is always embarrassing for countries and sports where black leagues even need to exist), to see how baseball works in the laughter era is to appreciate a sport that has never stopped. Analysis and self-awareness.

This is not to say that baseball is necessarily better. Every era has its setbacks. I want to replay the entire steroid era. Absolutely no one wants to return a player who is stuck in a loss and has no way out. Thinking back to years of playing on Astroturf and having an unnecessarily shortened career is very uncomfortable-basically a parking lot with a thin green carpet. Data will allow you to build a foundation 90% of the time faster than intuition. Encouragingly, seeing Johnny Bunche squatting behind the plate, with a separate bubble film hanging on his chest, I prefer to see concussion protection, rather than blatantly ignoring the potentially fatal head. The injury was impressed.

It's easy to fall into the present, thinking that the development of sports and entertainment are integrated and has reached the end, and there is no motivation to move forward from here. But twenty years later, we will see the footage of Votto, Moose and India, and then turn around each other in the bar, "Now this game is still a game. Look at these real men outside."

What are we doing now that will be regarded as barbaric by future generations? There is always something. Is it a special uniform that is constantly changing? The struggle around the baseline of the net? Is there a limit to the idea that nine-year-old children should have pitch counting? I voted that no matter what replaces the Internet, it will produce a lot of snickers on our huge pixelated super large screen; 2031 Reds will be equipped with a hologram to project the Venus advertisement directly into the sky. There is nothing you and I can do.

The proud aunt Mary Beth Ellis is a freelance writer and university teacher living in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is the host of the video podcast "Star Wars Thoughts and Prayer". Her first book "A Drink for the Girl" was published in 2006. Her second book is a collection of essays about following the Ohio State University military band, which is currently being published.

I'm lucky, I grew up in the era of Andy Griffith Show, Heroes I Love Lucy and Hogan, Red Skelton and George, and Gracie Burns and other variety shows. Later, I was fortunate enough to watch programs like M*A*S*H. Your warning about baseball is absolutely correct. To some extent, most sports are eternal. Ken Burns did a great job exploring the history of baseball in his documentary. Baseball will change forever, but let us hope we won’t let holographic ads project from the Red Army uniform to the sky

I think I haven't watched sitcoms since the Beverly Mountain People. Of course, I have been trapped in their social occasions on TV, I have seen bit by bit, but to "follow" one or watch it regularly, no.

I remember I received an invitation to join the "cement pool" pool party and nervously asked my mother what it was. Lax education.

https://www.fox19.com/story/18946911/the-andy-griffith-show-has-ties-to-cincinnati/

Cool information. Speaking of WKRP, it was a very interesting show, and it may only last as long as it should. I watch the Thanksgiving special every year. "Because God is my witness, I think turkeys can fly."

The bench is the first person I remember wearing a batting helmet instead of a soft cap under his mask. However, as I remember, it was later discovered that some catchers were wearing toque linings under their soft caps for a while while catching the ball. For those who are unfamiliar, the inner lining has competed with the complete batting helmet as a batter's head protection. Later, some catchers wore a visible hardened full-coverage lining instead of a reverse batting helmet.

A high school team that I played in the mid to late 1960s still had a few liners, but we were required to wear full external helmets (no earmuffs) on the plate during the game. My best memory is that the inner lining is nothing more than a round egg-shaped aluminum bowl with a round pad on the top and pads along the temple area.

The catcher is BAMF. They walked for so long without any proper equipment.

Hi Mary Beth...missed reading your stuff. I need to find some time to make up your articles that I missed. cheers!

Thanks for reading-even the backlog! 🙂

Not baseball, but the subject of the title......🙂

In the past few decades, few programs worth watching will soon come to mind. Someone has already mentioned M*A*S*H-they must have appeared on a high profile. It seems that 90+% of things are just "skip the shark". For every program written very clearly, there is a lot of rubbish.

For every team that won the MLB World Championship, 29 teams did not win and 28 teams did not even have a chance. Maybe we need to make "cry tracks" or "scream tracks" for our Reds instead of "laughter tracks"?

Your mention of the Negro League reminded me of two things. The first is Ken Burns's documentary, especially the entire "Bureau" dedicated to the Black League. The second is the ball cap I found in the antique store in the summer. This is the first issue of the KC Museum 30 years ago. There are about 20 black league team logos on it. I put it on a shelf and stuffed it with paper so that it can stand upright.

It feels as if we are on the verge of major changes. What remains to be seen is the essence of the 2022 season and our Red Army team. We already know that Tucker and Nick C. have left (I expect to have both). Anyone is guessing how much work was done before December 1.

I have learned that American shows that follow the British model and have a shorter life cycle are often much better-the screenwriter can plan a long-term arc, and the show is already running before it makes it look good, or if the plot line The change is so great that the characters/original situation becomes unrecognizable. The continuous show, squeezing out every possible plot from the network, always reveals wear and tear. Fortunately, this seems to be changing with streaming media. Although I really like "The Mandalorian", I was relieved to hear that it will only last for 3 seasons, even when the season 2 finale is the end of the series.

Pay tribute to Jerry Seinfeld, because he did not take that path, but climbed to the top of the list, which was unthinkable in his time.