> -----Original Message----- > From: Gautam Mukunda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 04:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: A gathering of vultures > > > 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. ..unless you're watching the Red Sox, in which case what you're doing is usually called "Enabling". > 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. I've never liked it because its too slow, too many players, and just plain to *grunt grunt* macho. Les beer commercials and bikini women screaming "wooo" in the air would make it more interesting to me. Speaking of slow.. does ANYONE watch golf? -j-
