Nothing he said in that seven year-old interview was surprising. Baseball has a competition problem with football because football is once a week, every game matters, the strike zone's too small, the commercial breaks too lengthy, there's too much televised inactivity...alert the media. He didn't say he found it boring or had lost interest, just that the fact that there were 15 games available for him to watch every night had diluted what for him as a boy was the singular experience of the Game of the Week. And I'm pretty sure the Bachelorette reference was a joke.
When he said, last night (or this morning), "This is when baseball is at its best," he meant it. Jesus, if I'd had to personally sit through as many Yankees/Red Sox game as he had by 2008 I'd be watching the Bachelorette, too.
