Yahoo Sports, Jeff Passan, recently called American baseball fans boring and judging from this particular paragraph, it is because we do not watch a baseball game with the same fervor as a football or basketball game: “Were people to tune in, they’d see baseball can capture the dynamism of college basketball and football, our two sports that feel as much like a rock concert as they do a sporting event. Much has been made of the United States not having the same passion for baseball as the Dominican Republic or Japan. That’s rationalizing. And it’s not true. If conventions were different – if players and fans both weren’t boxed in to a preconceived set of emotions, reactions and morés – American baseball would be just like the rest of the world.” I get it. As a whole, we are just not that into the World Baseball Classic and we don’t get ourselves whipped up into a frenzy like fans of the Japanese, Dominican Republic and others do. We don’t get a …
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A Response to Jeff Passan’s, U.S. Fans Are Boring
Posted on 17 March 2013.
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