[eastsider]

Err, about baseball, a "sport" where a fat man can become a success and be called an athlete. God knows but nobody around the known world wants to have anything to do with it.

Central America and Japan would disagree, and I happen to love the game. What I resent is the emphasis on money, but that's true of all professional sports. Personally, I'm partial to amateur-league games in the park.

Having said that, I'm looking for the Yankees to start the third millennium the way they ended the second. : )

[oldvike]

Don't pay attention to Alan Ford. He's only been a member of FR since yesterday. Obviously a liberal, eurotrash disruptor.

[Alan Ford]

Central America and Japan would disagree, and I happen to love the game.

I said "around the KNOWN world". I think that soccer is surpasing baseball in Japan in the popularity contest and after the world cup next year being co-hosted by Japan in will surpass it for sure.

About the money in sport you mensioned, it's done wonders for soccer . Soccer is basicly a huge money machine nowdays