“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
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Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.