Does the Internet let us know too much?

Our baseball coach was finishing up his post game speech after another good conference series win yesterday. The speech mentioned how well we had played and how consistency is going to be our key to success in the upcoming weeks. All of this was pretty normal and routine for a post game speech after a win, positive but with words of advice about not letting it get to our heads and how we need to make sure we don't change anything. The part that really made me think though was at the end when our coach made it a huge priority to explain that we should not be looking at the standings and how other times are doing over the next two weeks. We knew that we had put ourselves in good shape, but we didn't know exactly what shape we were in and I think our coach knew exactly what was going through our heads. It has become commonplace nowadays to be able to check schedule/results, statistics, standings, etc. all with a few keystrokes. Just a few years ago this wasn't the case. There are websites for everything now and it is very easy to get caught up in all of the different scenarios where our team could win the conference championship. I wondered to myself if five years ago our coach had to say the same things to his team, or if this is just another thing that needs to be added to the list of changes due to technology. While I couldn't agree more that the internet is vital, sometimes I do wish that it could limit our knowledge on some things.