{"id":60825,"date":"2016-11-04T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60825"},"modified":"2016-11-04T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T14:07:59","slug":"american-civilization-is-doomed-part-mccclvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=60825","title":{"rendered":"American Civilization Is Doomed, Part MCCCLVI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: \u00a0the World Series drew, by modern standards, an avalanche of viewers. \u00a0While more people watched the\u00a0<em>last\u00a0<\/em>really really great Game 7 that I saw (1991, Twins vs. Braves), more people watched TV back then. \u00a0 It was an irresistable draw; two &#8220;cursed&#8221; teams meeting, and having one of the more enjoyable World Series I can remember.<\/p>\n<p>And no Yankees.<\/p>\n<p>Downside: \u00a0in a culture where short-attention-span games are replacing sports in the public consciousness, it goes without saying that a lot of people who really don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>get\u00a0<\/em>baseball were really watching it for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads to&#8230;culture shock.<\/p>\n<p>This photo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/wait-whats-that-kkk-sign-doing-at-the-cubs-indians-game\/\">caused a tempest<\/a> in the teapot of vacuity that is Twitter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-9.02.34-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60826 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-9.02.34-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-04-at-9-02-34-am\" width=\"391\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-9.02.34-AM.png 391w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-9.02.34-AM-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sign says &#8220;K K K&#8221; &#8211; which you know, if you grew up keeping baseball scorecards, means three strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>Right?<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the tempest:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-8.38.48-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-60827 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-8.38.48-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-04-at-8-38-48-am\" width=\"435\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-8.38.48-AM.png 473w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-04-at-8.38.48-AM-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among many others.<\/p>\n<p>And people wonder why we have a choice between a racketeer\u00a0and a blowhard for President\u00a0this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news: \u00a0the World Series drew, by modern standards, an avalanche of viewers. \u00a0While more people watched the\u00a0last\u00a0really really great Game 7 that I saw (1991, Twins vs. Braves), more people watched TV back then. \u00a0 It was an irresistable draw; two &#8220;cursed&#8221; teams meeting, and having one of the more enjoyable World Series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,44,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-stupid","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60828,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60825\/revisions\/60828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}