Just wondering where you go. I got five minor league teams within driving distance and I've only ever been to ONE game in my life. I just can't get into minor league action. I know I'm a bad person: I get mad when a little kid makes an error or misses a tackle. I don't think I'll be one of those bad parents when it comes to sports, but I hate it when a kid parks under a pop-up and then he drops it. Maybe I'm projecting, I sucked at sports, mostly because I was in my head too much, I could never focus. I always wished our school had a field and track team. I would have been awful at those events too, but they were so easy: you ran or jumped or threw. You didn't have to think about missing the bunt sign or missing the snap count.
Kevin T. Ah well Me: I have to agree with this one. Baseball interests me in large part because baseball at the Major League level is an exhibition of excellence at a level so high as to be almost beyond imagining, but one in a setting that allows people with a far lower degree of skill (like me) to understand, appreciate, and criticize what the players do. I like football, but I don't love it in the same way, not because it is less complex but because it is _more_ complex - so complex that someone who did not play, like me, can understand it only on the most general level. Baseball, on the other hand, I can really get into. The Minor League's really don't interest me much except to the extent that they feed players into the Majors. Major League baseball players are better at what they do than 99.9% (and you can probably add some 9s to that) of the people in the human race are at _anything_. Which is why, incidentally, the players are almost always right, and the owners are almost always wrong, in labor disputes. But as a card-carrying union member, I would stick by my union brethren anyways, of course :-) Nonetheless, watching minor league players play well, but not as well as major league players would, somehow doesn't have the same appeal for me. Gautam
