There are fundamental elements of baseball as a viewing and fandom experience that baseball fans know separate it from other sports. Part of it is the length and quantity of the season - 162 games, plus a few more if you’re lucky. Part of it is the way this sport, more than any other, highlights, shares, elevates and exposes the individual. Part of it is the inherent goofiness and silliness and humanity of the sport, brought to the forefront by the sheer amount of time that baseball takes up that isn’t active sport - we get to see them just be people more than in other sports - hanging out with their friends in the dugout, in the bullpen, on the basepaths, even.
In First Meaningless Game of the Season, Mariners Beat Athletics 2-0
