I like all sports (except maybe yachting), but can understand why some people find baseball boring.
How many people complain about and dont understand why people watch golf on tv? A lot.
True. But a complaint is all it amounts to really, and maybe a snide comment or two about the clothes they wear. You never hear a bunch of 'commie socialist fag' comments about golfers. But baseball fans and golf fans dont behave the way soccer fans do when it comes to trying to sell their sport. If soccer fans werent obnoxious about and have a condescending attitude toward non fans, us non fans wouldnt say the things we do about the sport.
I see it the other way around. It is the non-fans that have a condescending attitude towards soccer. Of course, the argument has been going on long enough where both sides have been pretty petty about it forever....
There's a trick to watching yachting. I learned this when the America's Cup races were in Sydney and the live coverage was on in the wee hours of the morning. Tape the race, then watch the whole race on fast forward. The boats speed through the water like CigarettesTM and tacking duels are really fun to watch. If something extraordinary happens, like a sail blow out or a capsize, switch back to real time to watch that part.
Come to think on it, that might work for soccer, too. When a player actually makes a shot on goal, one could switch to real time, then back to fast forward when the shot misses or gets blocked.