What's the fun in baseball?

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" 
<drednort at a...> wrote:
 
> Well, I'm a cricket fan - one of the few sports I like, and the 
only one I really like to 
> watch. I even like test cricket (Australia v Zimbabwe, heading up 
to a thrilling 
> conclusion at the moment) which is the form where a match can take 
5 days and 
> is just as likely to end in a draw.
> 
> But it is a game that I concede is pretty hard to like, unless you 
understand the 
> nuances. If you do, it's very cerebral with an incredible level of 
tactics.


By, am I glad we Americans took the best of cricket and of rounders, 
and invented the perfect game:  baseball!  It has all the 
cerebration you could want, with complex tactics, and you get to run 
in a diamond, not just back and forth.

Haggridd, spiritual descendant of Abner Doubleday.