[Syd Thrift]

dola,

One thing I will say is, I sort of hate that we were, like, promised that the robots would work in the mines and enable us humans to spend all day writing poetry and what have you and instead we've created robots to spend all day writing poetry while we still have to work in the mines. It sucks and I hate my eventual robot overlords for this.

Where it applies here is: I realize nobody reads it (haha) but at the end of every season I go through each and every team in my league and write up a baseball-annual style report for all of them, something in between The Great American Baseball Stat Book and the old Athlon Reports and Street and Smith guides (probably closer to the latter; I definitely do not spend 500 words on each player). I do this because I enjoy doing the writing and because gathering the research necessary to make the writing work makes me understand the league, which is also a thing I get personal enjoyment out of. To that end, some of these forays are interesting but at least for me, nothing's every going to be as interesting as a. the raw data that goes into writing all this stuff out, and b. the discoveries one makes when one does the writing themselves.

If I was at all interested in "publishing" this, sure, maybe I'd run it through ChatGPT to see how it might write out stuff. Maybe I'll eventually do it on the novel I'm half working on at the moment. But, like... I'm not so I'm just going to write this stuff myself. Y'all do you but it feels like you might be denying yourself of some of the joy of OOTPing by employing tech to do that for you...