Just for today, I would say the most boring sports is anything
but hockey. The games at the Olympics show how the sport should be played.
Starting tomorrow, I'd have to say golf. Playing or watching. I've played a few rounds.... could never ever watch a game for more than 2 minutes. I've tried, really.
I can't watch baseball on TV. Don't mind going to a game, probably because I'm with friends or family...
but ... let me tell you a story. In the '80s I was living in western Canada and would drive every few months back to Ontario - sometimes north of Superior, sometimes south - and I liked to drive as late into the night and early morning as possible. Often, after sunset in the summer, the AM radio station signals would start skipping and you could pick up stations thousands of kilometres away. I would start listening to a baseball game - sometimes MLB, sometimes just a local team on a local station - it didn't matter. As the kilometres clicked by one station would be replaced by another, always with a baseball game. A different game perhaps? - it didn't matter. A game in Arkansas would be replaced one in Ohio, then Montana.... On a good night it would be a game that would go on all night - the names might change, and the score was irrelevant but it was still one seamless seemingly neverending game. The air was warm and I loved those nights.
A good radio play-by-play caller can make the game come alive in a way I've never experienced watching on TV or going to a game. (A good hockey radio announcer can do the same thing.... if you want to know if the TV coverage is any good just close your eyes. Can you still follow the game?)
For the record.... I agree that basketball is American. While invented by a Canadian, the game was initially played and developed in the US. What I don't understand is why Canadians don't claim joint custody of baseball. The game was initially developed by British colonial descendants from games they played (like cricket). Teams from southern Ontario, northern Ohio, and northern New York played each other in a proto-version of baseball that eventually developed into the baseball played today.
Happy day after ....
