Putting up Numbers: Scorekeepers and mass come-fusion (b-ball and all) 

Premise-acuity: Keeping accurate count, other-wise known in most athletics as "keeping score" has been a part of the way to past the time in this pastime of ours, even if "you folks at home" are tuning in by radio, where many of have taught themselves or followed a tradition, handed down, in the form of a "box score" -- not the one offered up line-by-line, game-by-game, with summaries of players' stats, as well as the final outcome. I'm talking about the "Official Scorebook" which comes with pre-drawn boxes that represent every single "at bat" which you might even still see on occasion haphazardly drawn on a napkin or whatever by a real scorekeeping aficionado -- "snob" who only does so on a napkin (or whatever) to not rub it in..."Oh, you don't know how to keep score?" Given this place and time we've landed in, feelings easily hurt and all...Collectively brings into question, the whole practice...built on the premise, the pre-supposition, that...

They still matter: As in the numbers and those who keep them, as well as those who put them up, on the score bored...boards that now display a (literally!) dazzling array of scores, info...mercials...Is there any wonder many are referred to as "JUMBO-trons!" A whole mass...

Collision, come-fusion: The former represented by the amount of inertia behind those who are actively advocating to do away with keeping score all-together, all-at-once, once-and-for-all...as in on all fields of play, including the classrooms to the playgrounds where some of the most fierce battles have played out throughout history..."If we didn't let them know who was winning, (and, by implication, "losers!") who would be the valedictorian, perhaps we would see a more egalitarian spirit on/off the field of play...where we can all be above average😁😔😕" In strike, I mean stark, contrast, with those out west-ward, as in "whatever happens in Vegas...eventually makes its way east-ward..." As in keeping track of every tid-byte of information that can predict either star quality (we're talking NIL in the newborn nursery, monitoring every whimper, wiggle, giggle...anything that might eventually predict...) The latter being ever-so-popular now, in cooking shows, awards (sometimes referred to as "cross categories" in earlier daze) and, or course, in what used to be called "Motor City...auto-motive capital of the world..." being ever-so-gradually, as in category creep, all things, come-Fusion...Here and now (as in the "D"), a gradual rise in what's now being touted as the "Transportation industry"...Speaking of being in motion...

Bobble heads: It's no wonder that, in addition to the one that was offered as part of your fair fare, to get into the ball-park, that you find you shaking your head, back and forth, up down...Given the amount of (dis)information that's now available not only on the scoreboard, but now includes a glance now and then, at your phone, as well as your watch...Speaking of watches...is anyone actually watching what they paid to come here for...???

From the looks of it: "Hardly, to None at all..." A double play combination, rivaling "Who's on First?" Unless looking at their phone screens, the even smaller watch faces, counts. Which leaves one more sensory input, of course...

"Listen up!" A common instruction given to the players by either the coach or manager, but here, in the form of a cautionary...If you're going to drive around and enjoy listening to the ball game on the radio, don't look too animated (i.e., don't be a "Bobble head") or look like you're enjoying yourself, shouting out, yelling at the umps over the air waves (Oh, while I'm at it, no waving of the hands) -- given all the crackdowns on distracted driving these daze...

All a matter of...One's own perspective (duh!). A matter I'll get you to better appreciate if you "come over to my side, walk a mile in my...blah, blah, blah..." If you're thinking I'm finally going to get back to the various perspectives on the experience of tie games (AKA "draws" depending on your venue), you'd at least be "in the ballpark". More specifically, "From where I sit..." Tell you more, next game day...