[smith288]

Would you care to explain why you think baseball has a greater intellectual appeal than football or basketball?

Baseball requires a batter to recognize pitch, location, ball motion all in the span of about .7 of a sec. Repeat this for 162 games trying to scientifically determine patterns and tendencies of pitchers who are charting your nuances, tendencies, weaknesses and hitches... Now...move on from one portion of baseball to another. Fielding. Then baserunning. Then player movements to maximize your teams potential...

The game is exceedingly hard and nowhere compares to bowling or billiards.

[SouthParkRepublican]

"Baseball requires a batter to recognize pitch, location, ball motion all in the span of about .7 of a sec. Repeat this for 162 games trying to scientifically determine patterns and tendencies of pitchers who are charting your nuances, tendencies, weaknesses and hitches... Now...move on from one portion of baseball to another. Fielding. Then baserunning. Then player movements to maximize your teams potential...

I hope you realize the absurdity of this argument because the same can be made for any sport but with football, basketball, hockey, soccer and chess, there is a clock running that drives not only physical ability (exclucing chess) but VERY intensive decision making ability.

Not trying to take away from a sport I love but you're making a silly argument!