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The Difference between Baseball & Football

Baseball will again be America's true pastime within the next 10 years! Yes. I stated it. I'm not the first one. I'll not be the last. But, I do not back off this statement. I do not hedge it. I will not give up this thought. And, I'll add an inflamitory kicker - Baseball is a better GAME than Football. Here is a fluid overview of my thoughts: 1. Football is reliant on Fantasy and Gambling to sustain its popularity, while Baseball has forcefully and vociferously opposed gambling at every opportunity since 1919. 2. Football wishes to erase its history, and no one thinks much (at all?) of the history of the NFL before the Super Bowl era. Baseball is history. The history of our country since the Civil War. The tie that binded us. The game that distracted us. And the game that is ours, and we revile any changes to it. Baseball is the game the started our "Spectator Sports Culture" (be it good, or bad). more to come