Twitter went a little haywire last night, just as there were nine or ten ballgames in progress. The fact that it absolutely drove me and a bunch of other people nuts was kind of surprising to me. I’ve been on Twitter less than two years. Surely I can enjoy an evening of baseball without hearing what a few hundred other people are saying about it in real time, right?
Well, sure I can. I survived last night. But it wasn’t easy, and it brought home just how integrated Twitter, blogs, real-time box scores and all of that are to my baseball watching and writing life. And, as more people plug in, it will become a part of their lives too.
Jason Fry has a great post up about that today, and about how sports lend themselves so comfortably and fully to social media and the Internet in general. In making his argument, he touches somewhat on a lot of the things I’ve been saying for a few months now about how the next-day story of a game and the weekly or semi-weekly column explaining What’s Goin On In Sports is becoming obsolete. Indeed, Jason notes that that stuff is increasingly unnecessary and probably inorganic to the nature of sports to begin with:
There’s much more to it, so click through. And if you’re interested in these topics, bookmark Jason’s page. He has gold like this quite frequently.