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Post by Terrapin Station on Oct 13, 2017 17:19:19 GMT
As I'm explaining to the "doctor," Boomer works more than 40 hours per week where that work does not involve watching sports. He has to watch games on other time. That's his OWN time, where he's not being paid to watch/go to Rangers games, Mets games, etc. It's a bit of nuance but so be it. Maybe he is one of the exceptions that confirm the rule. I'd say, though, that generally speaking, people who work elsewhere/other fields, don't typically follow ALL sports very closely. Maybe people's priorities and use of their leisure time differs (I mean, not just maybe; certainly it differs), but generally speaking, people who are otherwise very busy with other pursuits only manage to follow *closely* two or three major sports that interest them, and they pay some cursory attention to others. That's my case, at least. But yes, you are right that it is not impossible; certain people are natural multi-taskers. I do remind you that sometimes when people are too immersed into something, they may appear to be very proficient and happy and all, but at a future point this activity might take a toll and other parts of that person's life might suffer. Imagine for example, God forbid (I have nothing against the guy and don't wish him ill; it's just an example), that at some point Mr. Boomer's wife divorces him and says "well, he wasn't paying any attention to me; it was all the damn sports all the time! I had to get a lover!" Agree with all of that pretty much. And I wasn't bringing it up to be judgmental about anyone (just in case they were thinking that). I was just bringing up an example of someone who has a very busy, full life, yet still watches an insane amount of sports. I wanted to use someone who was a public figure for an example, because then it's not a matter of believing something a private person says about themselves on a message board. For one with Boomer, I don't know how his health holds up given his schedule--because I don't know when he sleeps. He not only routinely watches games to the end and then wakes up to be in downtown Manhattan somewhere between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m., but he'll be covering a football game for CBS in Green Bay, say, the game will go to 11:30 or so (if it's the Monday, Thursday or Sunday night game), and he'll STILL manage to be at the radio station in Manhattan by 6:00 a.m. the next day. He must just sleep on the plane and then go straight to the station, but he must often not get very much sleep. I know that when I've had more difficult schedules, I've gone to just sleeping a couple hours three times per day or so, so maybe that's what he does. You get used to it, but that kind of schedule makes it harder to spend time with family. |
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