Can You Fucking Imagine Paying 95 Cents a Minute to Get Updates From Bob Nightengale?

I have no firsthand knowledge of the world before the internet, but from putting some context clues together, it seems like a place where people were being scammed around every corner. And there's likely no better way to illustrate that point than the fact that there are 45-year-olds walking around right now who paid damn near $1 per minute to hear the latest from Bob Nightengale.

You know, this guy:

The guy literally only noteworthy for how comically and consistently wrong he is was charging people a buck every minute to hear him give out misinformation. It's such an insane hustle that you almost have to respect it.

I'm trying to think of something worse you could spend your money on at a rate of $60 an hour than Bob Nightengale baseball updates over the phone and I'm struggling to come up with really anything. Also, who was doing this? Couldn't you just turn on SportsCenter at the end of the night and have all the same information?

Thankfully, we all now live in a time where we can get on Twitter and have Nightengale embarrass himself for our entertainment for free. What a time.