Having confronted Dr. All, Ed Grinnell, International Man Of Mystery, 
exclaimed:
 
 EG> had something to talk about. You go to an NBA, NFL or NHL game, you
 EG> don't have as much time to sit back and enjoy the game or your company
 EG> but you do at a baseball game. 
 EG> The first thing that happens is that find yourself either "dressing
 EG> down" before you go to the park or unbuttoning your top button and
 EG> removing your tie because you've got to be comfortable for the next 2-3
 EG> hours. Maybe you've paid for a scorebook or you've brought your own and
     ......
     A nice little essay but it's really not much different from my own 
experiences going to Ti-Cat or Bulldogs games, though CFL and AHL rather 
than major league, and little yellow promotional footballs and pucks 
rather than baseballs.  Only this past did my experiences at football 
games were negative, not because the team was 2-16 or that I couldn't 
sit back and enjoy the game but because I had to sit near a group of 
people that whined the entire season and constantly showed their 
ignorance of the game. I suspect that if you had to sit next to those 
people at baseball game your enjoyment of America's pastime would 
diminish significantly.
                                     Sincerely Yours
                                     
                                     David G. Riess
                                     EchoSportsMonger
... 1869-1994: 125 years of football in Hamilton.
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