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mustachedmystic posted...

In baseball, good pitching/defense can be very exciting.

Very true. Baseball has a lot more going for it than soccer, imo. Baseball might be a 'slow' game by a lot of definitions, but something interesting is happening with every pitch. The same 'might' be true for soccer for those who are very interested in the sport, but the difference is that soccer takes place on this huge barren wasteland of nothingness.

In baseball, you know every pitch can lead directly to a run being scored, or even multiple if the bases have runners on them. There's an ebb and flow, where you set up good positions to make huge gains and the pitcher has to plan very carefully not to give away runs or walks or any of that.

Soccer is too binary. You're either in scoring position or you're not, and 99% of the time it's not.

Another game that's relatively low-scoring is Hockey, with soccer being something like 2.74 goals per game and hockey being something like 3 goals per game.

But hockey is exciting to me, because it's on a smaller play area, the players are all skating and handling sticks, and the goal is very small so it feels like the players have to be more precise to actually score. Soccer mostly just feels like a very, very long game of tug-of-war, and that can be cool for some people but definitely not for me.