Reply #6: I can offer some ideas, with the caveat that I don't actually [View All]

dislike baseball, it just happens not to be one of my favorite sports.

One thing that I tend not to like in sports are when the teams are doing different things at different times; in hockey, for example, both teams are playing offense and defense simultaneously, whereas in baseball the defensive team can't score at all.

I also tend to dislike it when a game repeatedly stops and resets between plays - I prefer continuous action.

Thirdly, it seems to me that there is too much of an emphasis on statistics and 'playing the numbers' in baseball.

Finally, as a contrarian, I feel like I've heard too much of the George Will BS about how baseball is at the center of American life - I pretty much always reject anything that I'm told I should like.

It also seems like the season is too long; I get a little burnt out and it seems as though half the season doesn't matter (kind of like the first 45 minutes of an NBA game).

Anyway, those are the first things to come to mind, and I note that many of them apply to sports that I like better than baseball, so perhaps it's all just irrational preference and childhood conditioning after all. In favor of baseball, I will say that as an LSU grad there are few experiences that can top a sultry May evening at 'The Box', watching the Tigers start another run toward Omaha...