Baseball on AM Radio

At our house, we don't get the Eastern Seaboard Propaganda Network, or any of the regional sports stations that show most of the televised baseball games. So to see a game on TV nowadays, I'm left only with the Fox game of the week on Saturdays. But I love baseball. So to follow my beloved White Sox, I'm left with busting out the old AM Radio and trying to bring in that far away Chicago broadcast.
Call me a throwback, but I actually PREFER listening to the game on the radio then to watching it on TV. At night I can cruise the dial and actually pick-up Cleveland, St.Louis, and many other AM broadcasts at varying strengths and unlike television, where the score, inning, outs, baserunners, speed of the last pitch and even current temp is all there on the screen as soon as I turn the game on, with radio, you have to work at figuring out what the score is, what inning it is, who's batting, who's pitching, etc. There is some "effort" involved and some ownership involved as the mental images of the action being described are all mine. We've all heard of "listening skills" but who's ever heard of "television viewing skills"? It takes practice, it takes effort, it takes discipline to enjoy a baseball game on the radio as opposed to just watching it on the tube.
As men, I think sometimes we need to remind ourselves of that when it comes to listening to our wives, our children, our neighbors, even our enemies. I once had the pleasure of hearing Martin Marty speak while I was in college and one of the things he said that stuck with me is that the difference between an argument and a conversation was that the latter actually requires you to listen. In an argument you merely want to get YOUR point across, often times over and over and over. Though you may pause to allow your opponent to make their point...you aren't listening to it! Conversation involves listening. It involves participation of both parties, even when they are not the ones speaking.
Heavenly Father, please help me to be as good a listener with my wife, children, neighbors, and enemies, as I am with a baseball game on the radio.