I think a better question would be "baseball vs cricket" because soccer blows the standaround game out of the water. I remember going to Cannons games as a kid and just roaming around the concourse because the game was so boring, basically giant chess with a few sprints here and there. but the only thing worse than watching baseball is playing it. You do absolutely nothing for 80 per cent of the game (unless you're the pitcher or the catcher, then it's 50/50), I think you get more excercise playing golf, curling or bowling.
Yeah soccer games are low scoring compared to hockey or baseball, but that makes a goal so much more exciting and valuable, not like a home run every forth at bat for some roided up hulk of a man who can't run because his muscles will tear. And yeah some players dive or embellish fouls, but they do that in hockey all the time, and if baseball was a contact sport, you can bet ballplayers would dive too.
I'd also like point out that soccer is the number one sport in like 170 countries.
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