Batter's Box Interactive Magazine: Tampa Bay at Toronto, June 30-July 3

Instead of tending towards a vast Alexandrian library the world has become a computer, an electronic brain, exactly as an infantile piece of science fiction. And as our senses have gone outside us, Big Brother goes inside. So, unless aware of this dynamic, we shall at once move into a phase of panic terrors, exactly befitting a small world of tribal drums, total interdependence, and superimposed co-existence.… Terror is the normal state of any oral society, for in it everything affects everything all the time.…

That was Marshall McLuhan some 60 years ago, and in my lifetime I think I've seen McLuhan go from visionary prophet of the future to somewhat passe thinker no one cares about anymore to what he seems to have become - guy who absolutely nails our present situation. Fear seems to be all around us, and that's never made any sense to me. People are afraid of problems that have shrunk in importance. People are so afraid that they've created new problems out of whole cloth where none existed before. I stumbled across that quote, in the midst of a lengthy article about the coming of the satellites back in the 1960s, and thought - oh. there you go.

Well, I got nothing to say about Tampa Bay. We're going to see them play five games over the next four days. I'm sure we'll all think of many, many things. Here's who's pitching.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, June 30-July 3

Thursday, June 30 2022 @ 04:55 PM EDT