Nashville Predators: Hockey is the Best Sport in the World

Baseball: America’s Favorite Naptime

Don’t fight me on this, I’ve met die-hard, lifelong baseball fans who have told me that you only watch baseball with one eye. Baseball is called America’s favorite pastime for good reason – all it does is pass time. I need uniformity in my life, I need set time periods. This whole “wait for a third out and THEN it’s a new inning” thing is simply a crazed shenanigan. Games can go on for absolute YEARS if teams are just really good at not getting outs.

And it’s not like really interesting things happen in between outs. I honestly don’t understand why Ferris Bueller decided to spend his day off at a baseball game. I would have chanced the lecture on Marxism and Feudalism and whatever other -ism he was complaining about; there’s a glimmer of hope that something wild would happen at a public high school.

No, at baseball, it’s just sit in the stands, reading the newspaper and peering over the corner when you hear the crack of the bat. Maybe you’ll see a home run. Maybe you’ll catch a ball. Maybe maybe maybe. But I guarantee you that whatever game you’re seeing today is pretty much identical to the game you watched last week and the game you’ll watch next week and the game you’ll watch in five months because the season goes on for too long.

Hockey has structure. It has excitement. It’s indoors, in a climate-controlled environment, so you’re comfortable, even during a dull moment. The Zamboni is cooler than the chalk thing that redraws the lines of the diamond. Nashville Predators Hockey players are hotter than baseball players. It’s a proven fact. Baseball doesn’t have Roman Josi. Like I said, don’t fight me on this. Hockey is better than baseball.

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