Does baseball matter? Like, at all?
As someone who edits a website that documents every Red Sox game (along with nearly every game played by the Red Sox’s minor league affiliates) I probably shouldn’t say this, but the actual things that happen on a baseball field don’t matter. Not one bit. There is absolutely no societal value in determining which of two teams composed of 26 arbitrarily grouped men is better at hitting, throwing, and catching a baseball than the other. Crowning a World Series champion does absolutely nothing to advance humanity in any way, either socially, scientifically, or artistically.