I do agree with you, the next two weeks every baseball fan in America is looking at their team hoping this is the year they go to the World Series except Pittsburgh where they are counting down the days to the trade deadline so they can watch their players shipped off and know there are only a few short weeks away from the Steelers playing.

And while I agree there has been a drug problem in baseball, I don’t think either of us wish to dig into the “better living through chemistry” underbelly of either sport as neither would come out unstained.

I respectfully disagree with your assessment that the same teams are always good. Over the past decade, only the Yankees and the Red Sox have appeared in more than one World Series and both of those appeared in only two. Of those two only the Red Sox were champions in more than one series. You could make a strong argument that baseball has achieved more parity than the NFL in this century.

Still, I understand your points. The post was written tongue in cheek and represents a more passionate love of baseball than a disdain of football.

As for your first paragraph, it is really hard to take a sport seriously when its own players need to use things like amphetamines to keep themselves interested over the 162 game schedule… see I can do it too. The flipside of only having 16 games per season is that nearly every game has a large impact on the season, making each one more important. In baseball, who really cares if you lose one of those July games? There’s plenty more left to play.

There are different things to like about both sports, and in fact I do enjoy both. I understand (and in some ways, very much agree) with your point that the Super Bowl is often underwhelming, but I don’t really think it’s fair to completely pan football… especially when baseball has its own problems (example: the same teams always being good and making the playoffs).