Baseball is sport that doesn't work on tv well...but it's a great sport in that every small town in the country has a baseball team...it's also way more popular in the world than American football or basketball. People who don't understand the chess match of baseball will always find it boring..personally I love seeing great pitchers face great hitters..I grew up listening to it on the radio or going to see the local games...great fun. It's the sport I think of when I think of American culture....Americans wear ball caps....not football helmets...never seen a football helmet with national champs written on it...
As a kid, I enjoyed just watching baseball as my primary activity. As I've gotten older, baseball has become more of a background activity for me--you get into the rhythm of looking at the TV for the pitch. I think that started in high school--I'd do my homework while watching baseball.
I pretty much only watch college until the playoffs because of those very reasons. Baseball isn't really all that bad. I mean it's not as boring as soccer.
Baseball has been televised for many decades, and human rain delays have never really been a problem until recently. What's great about baseball is that it's a perfect game. The distance between the bases makes it a bang bang play for infield ground outs and stolen bases and so on. As the players get bigger/stronger/better trained, the dimensions of the field have not needed much tweaking. Only the lowering of the mound in the 60s is the only real modification ever made (that I know of). You can argue that for football, the players are so big and fast that the field isn't wide enough. Kickers are so strong they moved the kickoff from the 40 to the 35. You can argue that the basket be raised and the court made bigger for basketball, for similar reasons. I'd vote to keep baseball as it is. The game has been pure (except for the DH in the minor league) and should be kept such.
