He says this despite encountering "appalling" dialogue, despite hearing actors give line readings of "autistic miscalculation," despite despairing over the sense that gamers and game designers have embraced "an unnecessary hostility between the greatness of a game and the sophistication of things such as narrative, dialogue, dramatic motivation and characterization".
He will get on American television and talk up the greatness of the game.
The space vacated by the fairy tale was soon filled by a combination of appreciation for the greatness of the game, the Herculean effort by Butler and a fresh shower of plaudits for Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski.
In that book he declared that games were "the most consistently pleasurable pursuit in my life," and yet he also attacked the industry for "an unnecessary hostility between the greatness of a game and the sophistication of things such as narrative, dialogue, dramatic motivation and characterization".
But after an exhausting day of shooting and skinning and looting and dying comes the real greatness of this game: you stand outside, off the trail, near Hanging Rock, utterly alone, in the cool, insect-chirping enormity of the scrublands, feeling remorse for your many crimes, with a gigantic predawn moon silvering the cacti and a bounty of several hundred dollars on your head.
"I think time and format are the sort of things that can be looked at relatively easily, that could preserve all of the greatness of the game but make it a bit more rapid for people's consumption".
After a 1961 season that had seen Musial slump, he rebounded at age 42 to hit.330 and remind Cardinal Nation of the greatness of his game in the '40s and '50s.
Allowing players to display emotion without fear of retaliation isn't going to win over people for whom baseball will always be too sleepy-slow, but it's not going to tarnish The Greatness of the Game or turn it into an X-Gamesian energy-drink-hellswamp, either.
During its Sunday afternoon coverage, host Jim Lampley took time to note that while there were some issues, no one can doubt the greatness of the games and the host country that staged them.
My Olympic experience in 2012 has been very different from that of 2008, but the greatness of the Games is no less amazing, and I'm so honored to once again be a part of the Olympic experience.
