re: Questions to our baseball fans.

Baseball (and football) share a common aspect in that they are both chess matches. They're on very different levels, mind you, but strategy games nonetheless. I'm a fan of both because of this.

I can't watch basketball, not even college because (just my opinion) the 5 man team, fast action and repetitiveness of it just bores the shite out of me. I enjoy playing it for the same reasons I hate watching it.

I played baseball all the way through middle school and even though I couldn't field or bat worth a shite, I always enjoyed it because my dad coached. I know it frustrated him to no end that I sucked but he coached year after year.

I've coached all my daughters' softball teams. I'm coaching my grandson's team now and I'll coach my own son's team as soon as he old enough to take the field.