Former baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti (father of actor Paul Giamatti) wrote this about the game.

"The Green Fields of the Mind "

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."

From - From A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

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^nice quote.

I haven't seen moneyball, but we looooooooove baseball.

Poor man's cricket, old bean.

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I think they're pretty comparable, here are some points of similarity:

1. Generally boring as hell
2. Stats obsessed
3. Pudgy players
4. ostensibly "global" but really just played professionally by a few countries



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Poor man's cricket, old bean.
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Preposterous. This is an outrage!