Why Don't You Follow Other Sports?

But that's a professional who does that for a living. Most professionals spend several hours doing their things and also engage in charity, family, etc. I'm talking about someone who does something else, and also finds the time to follow thoroughly ALL sports. The day has only 24hrs and people need to be asleep for part of these. Unless fake marco26 is a professional in the Sports world in real life, what I said still applies.

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.

Haha, I see I got under someone's skin.

slowly.

No. He just sees what I see. There is NO WAY I have more time than Boomer to watch sports. He GETS PAID to watch and discuss sports. That is his life. It is amazing that I always seem to get in arguments on this site about things that should be common sense.

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.

Sure, you can get used to it, but again, this kind of schedule takes a toll. It's been pretty well demonstrated, for example, that chronic sleep deprivation contributes to a weakened immune system, weight gain, and a decline in certain areas of the cognitive functions. Now, if you have a chronically weakened immune system, you can for example develop a cancer that you'd otherwise not have developed. All things in life are healthier when they are more balanced and not extreme. So in Mr. Boomer's case, I'd slow down a little.

I understand why you picked Boomer, but it would be nice if you also acknowledged the point that I'm making here and others also did: that it is not the best of examples because at least in part of that schedule, he is doing it to get paid; it's his profession. Someone else (not a Sports professional) wouldn't be making money while doing some of his sports watching and commentating, so that person would have to spend a sizable number of hours doing something else in order to earn a living, unless the person were independently wealthy and with no real task in life (but even the filthy rich typically preside over their investments, take care of their businesses, etc., although yes, there are some dilettante playboys who will do nothing but engage in leisure and let others administer their fortunes, but then, these types are already exceptions).

My take was, like I said, what *generally* happens. Generally, most busy people won't watch ALL sports closely like the OP was proposing.

The motivation is different, but the motivation isn't at all the point.  The time budgeting is.  Boomer is not making money while doing some of his sports watching.  He has to budget his sports watching time apart from a 40+ hour work week just like anyone else would.

Sure but my point is that *part* of it is done on the clock, while getting paid. I never said all of it. For the common Joe who is not a Sports professional, *all* of it would have to be on his own time (unless the person is fooling the boss which can only take someone so far; at one point the person is caught and fired). You do implicitly acknowledge it when you say "wouldn't be making money while doing some of his sports watching. That implies that he *is* making money while doing some of it too; the other part.

To recap - let's say Boomer watches and commentates sports for a living 20 hours per week. The other 20 hours his work involves other activities (such as traveling from place to place, getting ready, etc.). And then he needs to spend additional hours beyond these 40, say, 20 more, watching sports without being paid. That's a total of 60 hours, of which he is watching/commentating sports for 40 hours (20 on the clock, 20 on his own).

Now, if a common Joe with a different profession wants to watch and commentate sports for 40 hours per week, that person would need to do all 40 on his own, in addition to his other 40 hours of working time. That's 80.

So the common Joe would need a significantly more strained schedule to be able to do as much sports watching/commentating as Boomer.

Clear, now, right? This is why the Boomer example is not ideal, although it does show that people *can* do it. I grant you that.