Blood Brain Barrier said:
Cricket is actually a hell of a lot easier to understand than Baseball, which both Canadians and Americans play (and expect the rest of the world to understand despite the fact no other country plays it). I don't even get why the American baseball competition is called the "World Series".
I agree that the 'World Series' is laughably inaccurate, but honestly I've tried watching cricket, in earnest, with my better half when we were in New Zealand. Totally impenetrable in ways that, say, rugby (about which I'm equally ignorant) wasn't. Though I have to admit, I was able to come at rugby with a sort of "it's like football (soccer) and American football" as a point of departure. I couldn't figure out how to filter cricket so it made sense.
I'm not a baseball fan by any means, but mostly because ( at least as a casual observer ) it seems too straightforward and boring. One guy at bat, one guy pitches. Hit the ball, run around the bases until tagged out. Or don't hit the ball and after three swings give another guy a go. Plus walks and fouls... I dunno, maybe it is more complicated than I'm expecting.