They don’t get it.

I get 4 tickets for the 4th playoff game at Wrigley Field, and the daughters come home from Ann Arbor and Boston respectively.
“You’re flying home for a baseball game” a college friend asks.
“Yes, it’s a frequent flyer ticket”.
“Oh”, the friend responds, satisfied that it didn’t cost real money.

They don’t get baseball, but that’s ok. Lots of people don’t get baseball. And lots of us do. But they don’t get that a frequent flyer ticket is a real currency. It’s one with a much debated value – many threads about that. The value is different to different people – some want tickets, others want upgrades. But it has a real value, and isn’t something that is thrown away frivolously. Baseball is valuable for us. Not for others. Hey, this is America!


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