1. Games don't end in ties.
How would you like to spend half of your family's monthly food budget, go to a hockey or football game, and after the score is tied after one short overtime period, go home without a winner being decided? Baseball players will play all night long to decide a winner if need be.
2. Baseball players come in out of the rain.
Football games are played in Green Bay, Wisconsin in January. Nuff said.
3. Baseball has by far the best All-Star Game.
Players beg to get out of football's Pro Bowl. That's why they hold itin Hawaii, to get players to actually show up. Hockey and basketball's All-Star Games are games in which no defense at all is played, and players take turns throwing the puck or ball into the nets with no one stopping them. But everyone wants to be in baseball's All-Star Game.
4. People actually care about baseball's Hall of Fame.
Quick, name last year's inductees to basketball's Hall of Fame. And by the way, whose idea was it to make the Football Hall of Fame building in Canton look like a giant orange juicer?
5. The team with a lead in the last of the ninth inning can't hold on to the ball and let the clock run out.
6. No baseball player has ever made a movie as stupid as Shaquille O'Neal's "Kazaam." And "Space Jam" wasn't exactly a Oscar contender, either.
"Pride of the Yankees." "The Stratton Story." "Field of Dreams." "Bull Durham." Baseball makes for better movies, though I'll give you "Hoosiers" if you'll leave out "The Babe Ruth Story."
7. Baseball players come in all sizes.
You don't have to be seven feet tall or 330 pounds to play baseball, though players are certainly getting bigger. Baseball (and hockey) can be played by all sizes of people.
8. A baseball game is interesting all game long.
Recipe for watching a basketball game: Turn it on. Go to sleep. Wake up for the last two minutes.
9. Baseball is better to watch if you're actually there in person.
10. Baseball teams don't hop, skip, and jump all over the country. At least, not anymore.
Baseball may have the stupidest owners, but the last franchise to switch cities was the Washington Senators in 1971. Look at the NFL, which abandoned Los Angeles (!) and gave the boot to football-crazy Cleveland, and will soon leave Houston, the fifth largest metro area in the nation. Baseball, after the 1953-71 shifting, has stabilized.