[mrdeeds]

I prefer soccer myself, but I like baseball as well. Baseball as a specator sport is very leisurely to say the least and is more a collection of individual plays than anything.

There is more athleticism in soccer, but the game as evolved to the point where the talent is watered down and systems (especially defense) tend to dominate. Individual creativity a la Ronaldinho and Ronaldo for the most part is few and far between. When the game is played at it's highest level, detrimental things such as diving seems to be rampant.

Yes, there is excessive diving in soccer and this really needs to be clamped down upon if the game is to every take hold in North America. The WC as well as the FIFA U-20 WC was embarrassing more often than not.