Canadian commenter prefers baseball to hockey

• Canadian (Red Sox fan) comments to Richard Justice article on SportingNews.com:

"Baseball.

Luke_1918 on Thu Mar 06, 2008 01:02 pm

I am Canadian and I started playing baseball when I was 4...3 years before I started playing hockey. When I tell people I would rather watch baseball than hockey, they're shocked. Baseball is really an either/or sport. You either love it or you don't. I love it.

• It's like an athletic game of chess.

• Each play is important.

Each pitch has a purpose. I laugh when my friends say it's boring. They've never played. They don't understand the thinking that goes into it.

• I don't try to convert them into fans. Sometimes baseball is better enjoyed in peace and quiet. Yeah, some players have tried to gain an edge. Players have always tried, stealing signs, putting stuff on the baseball, and most recently, steroids. But the game of baseball will always be there.

Opening Day is the greatest day of the year. I love the Red Sox more than anything that I am not blood-related to. If they can't repeat, then a tip of my cyber-cap to the team that wins.

• Well, every team except you know who .

LET'S PLAY BALL!!!"

• (I liked his idea about enjoying baseball in peace and quiet. Why does the Minnesota Twins radio play by play guy raise his voice to its highest register for no reason when he could be speaking in a normal conversational tone? I'd like to listen to Twins games but can't because of him). sm

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