We do have satellite TV here, and thus, baseball is on TV here every day of the week :p. I know many Brits who love it. That being said, it's not my sport. I love ice hockey and American football, but baseball leaves me cold :p

You obviously have never played/watched a full game before. It's not necessarily the actual action that gets people going. It's the culture it has built around. All of the nicknames, the feeling in the atmosphere, and the statistics, all of the juicy, 162 games-worth of statistics...Oh, and trades. And managing 25-team rosters. Seeing gets optioned to the minor league affiliates. The anticipations for big plays. The sound and feeling of a power hit becoming into a home run. It's all about being there.

I agree that golf is boring to watch though. Just some cunt with a stick hitting pebble shapes into holes.

meh, football stats aren't as interested because it's a true team effort. If the receivers can't catch, the qb isn't gonna improve his rating. Plus, the whole sport is pretty "cute" in its formatting. 16 games a season, 32 teams in total: 2 conferences of 16 teams, each made up of 4 4-team divisions. It's a little too well-planned out.

In baseball, all the players go for their own multiple stats, both offensively and defensively. There's different roles and positions that all have their own respect. You aren't gonna be a huge star for being a left guard sadly. Plus, in baseball, players go on the field throughout the game, rather in football they got people taking turns with offense and defense, with most people only looking at the quarterback, the running back with the ball occasionally, or the receiver trying to catch it.

Yeah, that's why I love football as well. It's a true team effort with tactics involved. But I still prefer baseball because of the feeling of the sport. I dunno, I guess it's just personal preference. I guess I simply like more individuality among players. I like having multiple aspects to a sport. There's just so much more variety in it also. You can pitch. You can be out running in the back for balls. You can make grounders and plays. You can be the pitcher's closest friend on the field and be the catcher. Everybody gets to get a chance to bat. And you have 162 games to get your final tally in, while in football, you play 16 games a season, and are assigned a single position, and only play that one spot. You only come out for half the game, because offensive players and defensive players are different. It's like being a factory worker. Your entire career is a single motion, putting in one part.

I finally realized one of the cardinal reasons I hate hate hate baseball. It has the most POINTLESS DRAFT SYSTEM EVER. The reason I like baseball, is mainly because of the multitude of sim games and how well they handle the minor league system but with sports like the NFL and the NBA, the drafts and Offseason are one of the biggest parts of the sport. Maybe it's because both the NFL and NBA have much stronger NCAA programs but with Baseball, when the offseason comes it just feels like everyone says: "Well fuck, we're basically playing again in like 2 weeks so lets just chill."

That brings on another complaint I frequently have with people. The MLB has much too long a season for a sport that takes such a long amount of time to play. The NBA season has about half the amount of games, then I was talking with my dad and we both thought Hockey had a number of games close to the MLB and we remembered why that worked. The fights. Now hear me out, I don't want anybody dead or anything but if someone was to throw a pitch straight into A-Rod or Jeter's face and a fight *happened* to break out every other game, I wouldn't be complaining.

I agree, the baseball drafts are pretty shitty. And their isn't "a" draft either, and they're all happening throughout the year, and there are a bazillion leagues out there, that all relate to the MLB, it's ridiculous, but that's part of the fun. Managing a baseball franchise would be more fun than a football, basketball, hockey, or any other franchise, at least for me, because baseball has a lot more elements to it. Each player is different. There are the power hitters, the power pitchers, the closers, the ace starting pitchers, the base-runners, the primarily defensive players, the primarily offensive players, etc. Each team's roster can only have a maximum 25 players, so you get the minor leagues to send down players you don't want to play on the main team, and STILL the minor league teams also have a maximum 25 players. Each franchise has about 4 minor league teams, excluding the rookie leagues. It's just more exciting. The stats and the different roles each player has makes it more interesting to follow.

Fuckin' Cardinals

Probably one of the best series I've seen in my lifetime. I'm a Red Sox fan, so I'm not particularly a fan of either St Louis or Texas, but after the Cards put on a show in Game 6, I felt they really deserved to take this one.