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This is where I will be posting public content from my professional life as well as aspects of my personal life and hobbies. After 30 years of developing products and software systems for the Internet, I am finally starting to put a bit more public information on the Internet. As with nearly everything else on the Internet, this is very much a work in progress.
tl;dr: It’s Tom Cruise’s world, we all just live in it...
In today’s fractured, polarized society, there are few common experiences that have the ability to pull us all together. Sporting events are one such opportunity, although they’ve lost some of their ability to do so. The Olympics and the World Cup can bring people together to some extent, although the Olympics are somewhat politicized and the U.S. men’s national team rarely can compete with the world’s best in soccer/football. Here in the U.S. I consider MLS, the NHL, and also the NBA to be somewhat niche sports leagues that do not appeal to all. The NFL is hugely popular as a televised sport, yet not many people get to go to the eight or nine regular season games each team plays in its home stadium. I still consider MLB to be the game that is most accessible to the largest numbers and broadest spectrum of the American populace. I claim that if you attend a MLB game and look around at your fellow spectators, you will see a wider variety of ages, economic strata, races, and every other dimension of people than you will see at any other American sporting event. It almost has to be that way: MLB teams need to get millions of people to buy tickets each year, so they have to appeal to all...
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