I grew up playing 720 Degrees by Atari. If any of you are unfamiliar with the game, you skate around, collect money for doing tricks, and try to earn enough tickets to enter a skate park. The best part of the game was when the timer would run out when you weren't in an event, and a swarm of bees would chase you down while a narrator would narrate, "SKATE OR DIE!!" in a menacing narrator voice. Fast forward to 2019, and skate or die has been replaced with ride or die with scooters. I have to admit. Riding the electric scooter is fun, and in a city like Los Angeles, it's very useful.
Side sociological observation: While they are prevalent in most places, drive to the hood and you won't find too many. Hmmmm. Anyways, besides the "shit they leave behind," as Grey so eloquently described them in his
Top 20 2nd Basemen, the electric scooters have become very dangerous. There have been hundreds of injuries and even three fatalaties. Yikes. But this is a fantasy website, so I'm going to talk about a different scooter, as in
Scooter Gennett. Do we ride or die with him in 2019?
