That's why I'd rather watch baseball over any other of the team sports. The game is played at a much slower pace, allowing the cameras to focus up close on the antics going on in the dugout, bull pen , on deck circle and all the defensive positions. You get to see the players' personalities.
I go through periods when I follow baseball daily, then sometimes I hardly watch for a few years, and only check box scores for the individual performances of a few players. In 1987-95, I was in a couple of Rotisserie Leagues, (similar to Fantasy Baseball, but players are bought in an auction, as opposed to a snake draft). I won a National League Roti league in 1990, and narrowly missed winning an American League pool the same year, when first place changed hands three times on the last day of the season. I also won an NFL draft league in 1988, without making any trades. I probably would have won the 1994 AL league, were it not for the player's strike, and I phoned it in in my last season.
When I was a kid, most MLB games were played at a much faster pace; about two and a half hours was average, and complete games under two hours were common.
I came to really enjoy Cricket around 2009, when I could download England matches from a UK torrent site. Cricket is an amazing sport, if you understand it. I have a mostly-completed explanation of Cricket stored on a text document, and I'll post it in a new thread here when I finish writing it. It's definitely a slow paced game. When I can't fall asleep, I sometimes play an eight hour long .mp3 file of the radio broadcast from one day of a 2011Test match. The target audience seems to be eighty year old men listening in a barber shop. The commentator will refer to specific dismissals from matches in the 1950's, and expect the listeners to be familiar. Some of the ways they filled airtime in the 40-50 second interval between deliveries by a fast bowler were of no interest to anyone younger.
