Let me start off with baseball. What's the deal with baseball. I mean I don't know anyone that wants to go to a baseball game, let alone watch one on tv. Keeping that in mind, what's the deal with sporting networks showing a baseball game on tv instead of a basketball playoff game? You're probably thinking: Who would watch World Series baseball over pre-season basketball let alone baseball over playoff basketball, but it has happened. Eastern Conference Finals even. Not to mention that, for the worst sport that I can think of, they have the largest stadiums of all sports (except possibly soccer). I mean basketball centre's hold around 20 thousand people usually and teams like the Sacramento Kings have sold out for about 2 or 3 years straight. Now some people may be thinking "Well Joel, what's your solution then? You can't just complain, that's easy!" Well here's my substantial suggestion. I suggest that they stop playing baseball and destroy all the staduims where they used to play and destroy all of the old footage of baseball games and all of the documentation of baseball ever. Basically get rid of baseball to the extent that our kids grow up never having heard of the word. Yes it's extreme but it's the only option I can see as available.
Joel Anderson, June 7, 2004