Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher at the Ballpark

Baseball is a strange sport: it consists of long periods in which little seems to be happening, punctuated by high-energy outbursts of rapid fire activity.

Because of this, despite ever greater profits, Major League Baseball is bent on finding ways to shorten games, and to tailor baseball to today' s shorter attention spans.

But for the true fan, baseball is always compelling to watch -and intellectually fascinating.

It's superficially slow-pace is an opportunity to participate in the distinctive thinking practice that defines the game.

If baseball is boring, it's boring the way philosophy is boring: not because there isn't a lot going on, but because the challenge baseball poses is making sense of it all.