I enjoy the game as a fan, sure, but I get a huge amount of enjoyment out of the game as sort of an intellectual exercise. I'm a definite stathead, and I love reading about crap like the correlation of isolated slugging percentage to the winning percentage of playoff teams (from Dayn Perry's book Winners) or reading in Baseball Prospectus 2006 how the A's succeed by continually investing in players undervalued in the marketplace (er, draft, free agency....).
I don't know. I love Field of Dreams as much as the next guy, but I'm not about being sentimental towards sports like pan is. I respect his type of fandom, it just isn't me. I don't care how baseball is "morally" (p.s. football, with basically universal steroid use, is worse) or that players switch teams (it actually happens the same amount as in the era before free agency, or maybe even a little less). It's all part of taking the game the way it is and learning how to build the best team possible. You know - in a high-offense era, ditch bunts; if it's the 60's, bunt away, etc.
That said, the DH sucks and must die.
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