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Slowness depends on the person who is watching the sport and on the location. A fairly astute person watching baseball from a couch would find the sport mildly titallating. The sport on television is just about right as the baby bear would say in terms of watching the game and following the action. Watching golf on television is definitely more relaxed and the announcers atttempt to encourage viewer interest by dialogue that should be in my estimation, canned. The sport of baseball with its nine innings and changing of teams is really a lot more different than the sport of golf. The sport of golf doesn't have teams and is more analogous to tennis.

Watching the game of baseball say at the Houston Astrodome is really slow, but much easier to follow than watching a game of golf at your local green. Really, it is a perplexing question but one that interested me in that comparing baseball with golf is like comparing apples with corn. Which product grows the slowest? Baseball teams are developed through the years and the players are more representative of their teams name than of their own name. Golf players train on their own and represent themselves in the game. Watching an inning of baseball with the three strikeouts being worked out is only slow to the opposite team. Watching a golf player closing his eyes and swinging at say 179 yards to the hole is only slow to the viewers on the same side of the golfer who have to wait for the announcer on the other side to tell them how far or just walk to that hole.

Now, if I had to watch a stalk of corn growing or to wait for an apple to do the same, I would say that the slowest product would be the apple and that I would have picked the ear of corn and masicated it before the apple ever blushed. Therefore, since we have compared corn to golf and apples to baseball, I would have to say that baseball is slower to watch than golf.

In the time that it takes to watch a round of golf, we would be spending two hours on the couch hoping that the baseball announcers would grow hoarse and stop sputtering out insane comments. Our golfers would be pleasantly putting on their most regal airs while our teams would be spitting out tobacco juice and substitute players.

And while on the subject of substitute players, have you ever seen a game of golf with a substitute hitter? The slowest game to watch whether on television or live is baseball and it gets even more tedious on the radio which by the way leads us to another question. Have you ever heard a golf game on the radio? To be honest with you, I think that listening to a nine inning baseball game on radio is as silly as it would be to listen to the action of a golf tournament on the radio. What an exercise in developing patience!

And, therefore, let me conclude that baseball is the slowest game to watch regardless of the place.

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