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I left baseball when the steroid scandal hit. I remember being excited about the McGwire/Sosa home run chase, and to find out later that it was all tainted, along with baseball as a whole was awful. The last World Series I remember watching was the Diamondbacks taking down the Yankees and some great performances by Schilling and the Big Unit.
Since then I only really watched when the Rangers made the World Series.
I came back to it after playing OOTP 18, and watching and reading Moneyball. Sabremetrics has made the game more exciting for me, combining analytics and sports in a way that's just so good. On the other hand, it's made it less exciting because the stat-driven style of play is boring. Juiced baseballs and 3 Outcomes is no good, and I definitely prefer the Tony Gwynn balls-in-play style.
Thankfully there's a lot of historical baseball to dig in to.
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