Football vs. Baseball

             Any good sport should be as much fun to watch as it is to play. I cannot drag myself to watch a baseball game. I love playing baseball or softball but four hours watching a pitcher shake off pitches to the catcher is unreal. Baseball is a boring spectacle of overpaid drug users manipulating their bodies so that their names will live on in history. Joe Montana didn't have to use steroids to be considered perhaps the greatest quarterback in the history of the game. If he wasn't the greatest ever, then he definitely was the coolest QB under pressure. Many of the top baseball players today are in the midst of a steroid scandal. Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and a few others have sullied the great sport of baseball. Oh, I almost forgot strikes have also helped me lose interest in baseball. I know football players strike occasionally too, but never in the history of football has there ever been a season cancelled right before the championship game. All baseball has these days is its storied history. It means nothing anymore. It has lost its allure. Out of one hundred eighty-two games, two-thirds of have no meaning or value on the championship whatsoever. Every game during a football season has dire consequences on the team's potential playoff appearances. And, for all the playing and playoffs there is always only going to be one team consistently considered to be the champs year after year - the Yankees. Baseball is boring.
             Football is the sport for me and for most of America these days. Just look at the ratings. From February to September simply tune in to any sports talk radio show and listen to what they are talking about. It's 90 percent football talk because that's what the people want to hear. Football has passion, intrigue, controversy, and the occasional scandal too. A great football play makes you jump from your seat. Baseball makes me turn the channel. Football is the greatest show on Earth. Football is America's new favori...

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