I do see your point jacqui c. In fact, I wonder why I still watch baseball. I go to a few games during the season, but nowadays I go to the minor leagues here in St. Paul, as they have outdoor, old time baseball, whereas the Twins are big stadium corporate baseball.

But I watched the Twins again this year when they got into the play offs. I sometimes watch the play offs, sometimes don't. I watched the ALC last year and this year. This year the Twins lost to the stinkin' Yankees, and because the Yankees are the team everybody loves to hate (including me), and because of the competition between the Yankees and the Red Sox, I watched. The come back games played by Boston against the Yankees were good baseball watching. But actually, the ALC series between the Twins and Yankees was even more exciting baseball that the Yankees/Red Sox series was. The Twins played their hearts out against the Yankees, and the games went into lots of extra innings--very exciting baseball.

The reason I still watch baseball, but not other American sports like hockey and football, is because I just love baseball. I watch the basketball playoffs usually too, even though my home town team NEVER gets in the playoffs. I wish we had decent soccer in the US. I watch the women's team, because they are the only ones worth following for the US. We just got a new soccer team here, the Minnesota Thunder. We went to a few of their games this summer, and had a blast! I love the game.

I guess you have to enjoy watching really high quality athletic performances to watch professional sports. I watch a lot of the Olympics for the same reason. There is a profound beauty to that level of athletic performance, just like there is with a high level of music performance.