Uh oh. The scotsman has surfaced...correcting hundreds of freepers as we go...
I was sick of the soccer bashing (actually I thought you liked it) and deciced to dish out a few retorts. At no point did I do anything that bash an ‘american’ sport (which ironically turns out to be English), so please don’t try to turn this into some Scotsman America-bash.
Happy Birthday by the way, if belatedly (I have been ill this week).
If you are a baseball fan, fine. Personally I think its dull, and that its hypocritical for Americans to criticise it when the two main US sports are stop-start, and take 3-4 hrs to complete. In the case of the NFL, ‘60 minutes’ of action. And that neither sport is known for its incredible physical examples (at least not baseball and the NFL has more overweight players than adonises).
Baseball was invented in 18th C England, called ‘base ball’, and is referenced in Northhanger Abbey. In case you are interested.