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Why Baseball Is So Boring

We're essentially drawn to sports because they contain some mystery. The way the baseball season compensates for its inherent mystery, for the randomness of each game, is to make the season really long. What do you think is more satisfying when you're watching a mystery and you guess who done it, or you guess how it ends and you're wrong? I which feels better? It's a really interesting question. If there's going to be a big surprise ending, and we don't know who did it, i think for me what makes that satisfying is if the track was laid properly. We like to see an upset. That's also why a lot of people find college sport so compelling

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