baseball
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why do we like baseball so much? the games are long and mostly boring, and all the players are on drugs.
i think we like baseball because it is like spending the day relaxing at a real park–one with swing sets and grass and whatnot. except at a baseball game, you have something to watch, other than couples making out on blankets. |
what makes baseball the supreme park-like sport? and don’t say action, ’cause it doesn’t have a hint of that until october. hockey and basketball are exciting, but are played indoors, so they’re immediately excluded from the park-like sports category. football is played in fall and winter, so the cost of attending a game is freezing one’s bum-bum off. soccer isn’t very popular in the US yet, but internationally, going to a soccer game is less like a relaxing day at the park and more like a few hours at the 1964 watts riots. and tennis–nice try painting the concrete green, but we’re not fooled. baseball is the true park-like american sport in 2003. too bad tickets cost so much or i’d go. i guess i’ll just have to enjoy the free entertainment at the city parks, provided by local enamored couples.