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I’ve been wanting to ask this one for a while now–I actually started this post on 03/14/09–and I thought this would be the perfect venue to ask the question:  Whatever happened?  At the risk of sounding like a crotchety old Andy Rooney, I have a few questions that start with the aforementioned interrogative… 

Whatever happened to kids knowing how many stiches on a baseball?  Do they know this?  Everytime I muffed a ball and looked longingly at it for answers as it lay on the ground before me, I would hear a coach yell out of the dugout, “108 of ‘em” as though I wanted to know at that point.

Whatever happened to kids wearing their ballcaps the way they were intended?  When I was a kid, and I got a brand-new ball cap, the first thing I would do to it is start flexing that bill so that when I put it on, it felt like it was made for me.  Besides being a part of the uniform, the ball cap had a funtion – to keep the sun out of your eyes (I might add that I’ve had the bill of my cap deflect more than a handful of bad hops in my life).

Now I see something so common that it just makes me scratch my head: The super-flat bill. See, that’s how peculiar it is – I don’t even know what to call it. People, do you know how uncomfortable that must be? I mean c’mon, you have to order your cap 2-3 sizes larger than normal just to accomodate for the for the span of the flattened bill across the forehead.
I don’t know about you guys, but this would absolutely drive me crazy, and how would you keep it on your head and from flying off every time you went to chase down a ball?

Whatever happened to kids playing catch in the street or playing a pickup football game?  Do kids still do these things, or are they too busy being mathaletes, text messaging and playing totally sick video games?  I’m sorry, but I just saw a kid who looked like he must be about 8 years old, riding a bike and talking on his mobile phone.  That’s crazy…  Oh, I don’t mean that’s ‘crazy’; it’s just bizarre.

Whatever happened to paper routes?  I freakin’ quit! 

I’ve got a bunch of these questions that I want to throw out there, but I want to hear what you think.  Let’s hear your comments – I want to know if you can get as fired-up about it as I am.

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