Baseball

[Oliver Xymoron]

As someone with little affection for spectator sports, I'd have to say what
strikes me most about baseball is its seemingly endless capacity for
non-action. It's right up there with fishing, that most mindless of sports.
Baseball actually strives towards this ideal, throwing a no-hitter during the
World Series is the dream of every pitcher, and many a misguided little boy,
a select few of whom instead grow up only to find themselves daydreaming in
the wasteland known as "the outfield."  Baseball, as the official American
_pastime_, is a prime example of that insidious force known as entropy.
Bright young men spending the best years of their lives, standing around in a
field, mostly motionless, occassionally scratching themselves under the
mesmerized eyes of thousands. Million dollar salaries, civic pride, the
national anthem, the president throwing out the first ball, legal monopolies,
player trades, Pete Rose, chewing tobacco, endorsements, and statistics, 
endless, mindless, statistics. As American as Mom and apple pie. 

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