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To: Eric K. who wrote (146798)	11/5/2001 7:41:49 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Eric, re: so I blame baseball and cricket for being B-O-R-I-N-G. The game of baseball is the most interesting part. In order to really appreciate baseball, you have to understand the incredible balance of a very complicated game; the jockeying for every minor advantage. It's a thinking persons sport. Football and basketball are much easier to watch, good brain dead entertainment, with some interesting tactics and individual athletic feats. Baseball is like a fine wine, football and basketball are like a cold beer. The cold beer will do a better job of quenching your thirst, probably taste much better on a hot day. Baseball is complex, you have to understand it, drink it slowly, and really pay attention to appreciate the subtleties. To each his own. A great World Series, it has to go down as one of the best ever. On the other side, did anyone see the Bears comeback win? That was another WOW. John

To: Eric K. who wrote (146798)	11/5/2001 3:09:41 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Eric,<<< I remember falling asleep at the Sunken Diamond when I was dragged to Stanford baseball and at Candlestick when I went with friends or family to watch the Giants. At several hundred basketball and football games in person and who knows how many on tv, this has never happened to me.>>> It is easy to understand Football's attraction. It is made for TV. It's about gladiators. It is made for people without a sense of history. All you have to understand is the point spread and the concept of over and under. Every game becomes a coin toss. For 58 minutes, athletes like Ray Carruth, Ray Lewis, and Kyle Turley strut their stuff - setting up the scene for the last two minutes - where points spreads and over and under bets are won or lost. You don't have to understand anything to get caught up in this stuff and feel the excitement. Baseball on the other hand attract fans like George Wills, Doris Kearns Godwin, and Bernard Malamud. There is no clock and every player can be judged by statistics relating to personal achievement, yet it is a team game. You can compare Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Willie McCovey, Willie Mays, Micky Mantle, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Joe Jackson - one against the other. They all played the same game. Many on the same field (Yankee Stadium). The skills required are pretty much the same - 100 years ago - as it is today. A baseball thrown at 90 miles per hours looks like it is going to smack you in the head, but at the last second it drops into the strike zone and you have to hit it with a stick. That requires a lot of skill. Arguably the most difficult skill to acquire in all of sports. Baseball is still a game where people of ordinary size can excell. You don't have to be 350 lbs or 7 feet tall before they would consider letting you play. It is a game that requires a great deal of skill and there is tremendous history. It is about fathers taking their daughters to games and fathers and sons playing catch. To enjoy the game, you need some perspective and understand the skills required - but to really enjoy the game, you need some sense of history. Yes, baseball is only a game, but after 9/11, the world series and the purity of the sport, has made baseball more important to me than ever. Sorry fellas, but football is just too crude and vulgar for me. Mary