  For so long now summer has been in ways a huge dissapointment. When you were a kid, you got to run around with your friends and play and do whatever you wanted.
Maybe if you got lucky then you went on some awesome vacation. From about middle school on, I was placed in a summer engineering program. Basically it took these inner city Chicago youth and made them do science and math and other scholastic activities instead of, oh I dunno, going shooting people or stealing or whatnot. It was interesting I suppose, but for what it's worth I can't say I wouldn't have rather spent the time sitting on a couch watching tv or playing a video game. Time moves on and still my summers are spent in school.. but that isn't what I wanted to talk about. Baseball sucks. Let's face it, you only have one person that is making a play at a time. Sure everyone else can play a position and predict what is going to happen next to help with the plays, but it is one person at a time doing something.
One person throws the ball while nine people scratch their arses. Well I guess the ninth doesn't scratch too long because he needs to pay attention to the ball enough to swing or not. Then if he hits it, generally it only goes towards one person. So that person tries to catch. Maybe a teammate runs over there too just in case he sux and doesn't catch it. Then there is a throw and a catch. Boooring. Who pays these people all this much money to play a million games a season that nobody cares about?
Blaugh. We made this big push to see all of this arena football on tv, why not put the NBDL on tv too? That would be good summer entertainment. If you ask any kid what sport they are going to be playing over summer most of them would say basketball anyhow. Well some would say soccer and some would say football, and the less talented kids would say baseball... but most would say basketball.
No I don't have scientific proof to back this up, and I'm not going to invest any money to do so. But if you want to prove me wrong then conduct your own survey. So I say, forget calling baseball players the boys of summer, they are just fodder to fill time, like all these crappy re-runs and lame summer shows we have to watch. And I'm out... 
