Ashley Gabby

tonight was game 6 of the world series… it was banaaaaaanas at the end.

that being said, something a espn radio commentator said made me think… “this will be a game that is talked about for years to come” or something to that effect. 

will it? yes it was an amazing game and yes it IS worth talking about for years to come… but do we as a people in 2011 have the attention span to care? i dont know if we do. perhaps sports are the exception to this rule, but arent we always looking for the next interesting thing to happen? and when that thing happens, dont we immediately brush off and forget about that HUGE event that happened a month ago?  will the name Freese ever mean anything like the name Buckner does? and even if it should… we wont care that much because a. the cardinals won that game, and b. it will never replace the Buckner roll between the legs. 

i feel like in the 2000’s people became more self involved than ever… and maybe this is more self reflection than anything else, but we do not considering things to be important, events, milestones like we used to. And if we think something is crazy amazing and bananas, we compare it to something in the past and nothing holds up to legends of the past.  we create our own “legends” but they are simply cast aside when the next legend presents itself…. 

just a thought i had.  im just curious what we will be saying about right now 50 years from now.  i really like history, and i will be fascinated to see what history books in college say about the 2000s since they barely go into details about anything past 1980….