re: Who is happy the NBA season is FINALLY over?

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Baseball was my favorite sport to watch and play growing up, but sometime around 10 years ago I just lost interest completely.

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Same here.

I was absolutely obsessed with baseball as a kid. Until junior high, I only played baseball and didn't even entertain the notion of participating in any other sport. The MLB All Star Game was like Christmas for me, and I'd tape the game and rewatch it incessantly. I watched Mark McGwire break Maris's record and thought it was equivalent to the moon landings.

Somewhere around the turn of the century I just completely lost interest for no apparent reason. Once I got to elementary school I began to understand football a little better in terms of the schematics, and I started playing football in junior high and everything changed for good after that.

I've said this before, but baseball today is such a bastardized version of what it used to be. The current players have gone way too far with the unwritten rules stuff, and the pace of play is unbelievably slower than it was 20 years ago. Also, the onset of shortened attention spans doesn't bode well for a 162 game schedule where the best team in baseball might lose 60 games.