(670 The Score) Hall of Famer and Royals legend George Brett doesn’t follow baseball all that closely outside of the Kansas City area these days, in large part because he finds it difficult to do so.
And why is that? Because MLB box scores often don’t appear in the newspaper, and that fact really riles him up.
“I don’t really follow anything outside of Kansas City,” Brett said on the Parkins & Spiegel Show as he took a detour of the subject matter while discussing the White Sox’s hiring of Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol as their new manager. “It all started when, god, USA Today and the local paper, they don’t even put in box scores anymore. You notice that? I used to love to get up in the morning, and there’s not many guys I follow in baseball on other teams, but now in order for me to do that, I’ve got to go to MLB.com, pull up box scores and I’ve got to start clicking all these frickin’ buttons. Just give me a frickin’ newspaper with all the information I need. It’s not that frickin’ hard, is it? Jesus Christ, it just drives me crazy. And they wonder why baseball is losing its popularity? I think that might be one of the reasons.”
Given how early most newspaper deadlines are these days, Brett is unlikely to get his wish on a regular basis – but it won’t stop him from sharing his opinion.
“Throw a box score in there once in a while for crying out loud,” Brett said.
You can listen to Brett's full interview with the Parkins & Spiegel Show below. It starts around the 17-minute mark. Brett discussed Grifol at length as the latter prepares to take over as the White Sox's dugout boss.
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