Baseball vs Other Sports On Television

(sigh) Yes, I am a baseball fan. Boston Red Sox dyed in the wool. Whatever being dyed in the wool consists of. Never understood that phrase. Sounds like a rather painful procedure so it must have happened while I was a mere child. Kinda like when I was circumcised. OK Mrs. V, we have a two for one deal here today at the hospital. Circumcise your son and we'll throw in a "dye in the wool" Red Sox procedure. Must have worked because I've been a Sox fan for all of my life.

It's extremely difficult for us Sox fans to endure the long cold winter without baseball. We tend to go through a withdrawal phase followed by endless surfing on the tube to find something to pacify us until April rolls around. But nothing seems to take the place of baseball. No, football doesn't do it either. By the way, I've been called UN-American for not liking football. Doesn't bother me though. I just shrug it off and go stand in a corner somewhere if I'm surrounded by football fans.

There ARE other sports on television such as golf, basketball, soccer, hockey, NASCAR and yes, football. It just isn't the same. Take golf for instance. Have you ever seen a golfer steal the second hole? Or for that matter, knock the ball out of the course on to the Masspike. NO! Or a soccer player actually touch the ball other than with their feet or heads. Try doing that in baseball and you're either taking first base or in the hospital. How can you enjoy that game without ever feeling the ball coming at you at a gazillion miles an hour knowing full well that you only have a tiny stick of a bat to hit it with. Hockey drives me crazy just trying to keep track of the tiny puck zipping across the ice. I can't even follow a golf ball on television so how the hell do I follow a hockey puck? Basketball isn't too bad except for the constant squeaking of those sneakers on the court floor. I frankly think the hoops are way too big too. It's just not the same watching a big ball go into a hoop then watching a tiny ball heading for a baseball bat. And what about those sneakers those guys wear, what, are they all size 13! No wonder they squeak. NASCAR is way too noisy, not to mention the fumes from all the cars, and unlike baseball, there's no home plate, just a green flag at the end. When you win the race it's not like you can stop on a dime after winning surrounded by your team mates. Sure, there's the pit crew, but at the moment of winning they'd all get run over running out to congratulate the driver.
Yeah, I know, I'm picking on minor things here because I love baseball so much. The rest of you sports fans could most likely counter me with the negatives of baseball. But I'll never change my mind. Like I said, dyed in the wool.

So you'll have to excuse me for my dislike of other sports as I sit back in my easy chair out on the patio on a warm summer afternoon with my nice cold bottle of Woolite. Yep,.......dyed in the "wool."