The anti-baseball crowd are getting lost because ESPN made a bad decision to use the word "tough". Everyone is thinking tough as in the physical sense, while ESPN is referring to it in the sense of being challenging. Baseball made the top ten because it was given the highest hand-eye coordination score, which I can't really argue with, and also scored well for power. And if anything, they scored it far too low for analytic aptitude. Depending on whether you are judging in the sense of a game or a season, the sport could be said to be ranked too high or too low for durability. If one wanted, they could argue that baseball should actually be higher.
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