It’s official. It’s been going on for a week now so I guess it’s a permanent change. The Los Angeles Times is no longer carrying a sports page. Oh they still have a sports section, but as far as baseball is concerned, no reporting of the previous day’s games — no box scores, standings, game summaries, schedules, and nothing about today’s games (who are they playing, who’s pitching). And this is the big change — nothing about the previous day’s game for either the Dodgers or the Angels. I can read the entire sports section and not find anything about who won yesterday’s game or anything about the game. What gives?

Now I’m sure a lot of you could care less about this, but I think it’s significant. For at least 50 years of reading and loving newspapers, I have always turned to the sports page every day to read about the previous day’s games. When we lived in the Bay Area it was the Giants in the San Francisco Chronicle. In Massachusetts it was the Red Sox in the Boston Globe, and here in southern California, it’s the Angels in the Los AngelesTimes. All these newspapers had a staff of writers that would bust their buns to put the results of the games the night before on my driveway by six in the morning, even if the game wasn’t over until eleven o’clock. But no more.

So I guess I can complain about this, or write a letter to the editor saying “Sayonara” like many have. Or I can face the music and wake up to the real world.

Change is the name of the game, especially if we want to speak to Millennials and younger, who apparently are getting their sports information online and off of Apps. My guess is that most of them are probably not even going to have a newspaper in their hands — ever. I think that is tragic, but they will never know what they are missing. And that is a part of the real world I must adjust to, or retreat to my little private zone where I try to keep the old world going until my dying day.

Our family often quotes a line from one of our favorite movies, Father of the Bride, where the wedding coordinator says to Steve Martin when he is going ballistic over wedding prices, “Welcome to the nineties Mr. Banks!” Only today it would be, “Welcome to the 21st century Mr Fischer!”

This is only one small area where I will have to adjust to the changing tide. Wake up. If I want to communicate with another generation; I will have to find out how that generation gets its information, and chances are it may not be through the newspaper. There are so many ways of getting information now. Don’t let the world pass you by. Get your phone or your tablet out and find out what you want to know. Because it’s not going to be in your newspaper anymore.