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Originally Posted by abailey3313
This is an awfully naive statement.
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I would have went with a stronger word.
Truthfully I enjoy three sports for different reasons.
Football - I love the strategy of football. More than just the X's and O's, all the little details of execution. To me, it's the ultimate strategy game, but the strategy begins so much earlier than game day. There isn't another sport that even remotely compares to the sophistication of football. Everything is orchestrated and practiced and timed to perfection.
Rugby - I think Rugby is the ultimate team game and in a lot of ways the most physically demanding sport. It's constant, fluid and unrelenting. The strategy is both simpler and more difficult, the pauses are infrequent and short. Decisions are made in real time by the men on the field.
Baseball - To me, baseball is art. Just like a film or a novel, you can watch a story unfold with so many stories overlapping. You have career arcs, season arcs, franchise arcs, game arcs all converging at once. When the Tigers play the Yankees next week and Rick Porcello is pitching against Ichiro there is a lot more to it. You have a 24 year old Porcello trying to jump start a somewhat disappointing career pitching for a franchise who hasn't won a championship in nearly 20 years, but both are trying to start a season with huge expectations. You have Ichiro, trying to prolong the end of a fantastic career playing for the yankees who are trying desperately to stay on top despite seemingly being over hill.
Sure, you can dig in other sports and find those types of story lines, but in baseball it's played out front and center.