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>Professional sports are first and foremost supposed to be fun to watch Are you sure?

• liveoneggs 4y ago
  they are entertainment
• bombcar 4y ago
  The “professional” gives it away - someone is paying for it and that is mostly people looking for entertainment these days. There may be a very small amount of “record beating” but even that should be entertaining. Imagine if MLB used aluminum bats or allowed the pitchers to grease the ball. A game if endless home runs or endless strikeouts would be boring.
• Waterluvian 4y ago
  Yes. Olympics and other competitive events seek the best. Professional sports seek the most entertaining and therefore most profitable (which usually but not always correlates with skill).
  • dagw 4y ago
    Olympics and other competitive events seek the best. That's not really true at all. Look at swimming again for example, they have lots of rules related to what you are allowed to wear and how you're allowed to swim that all lead to slower times, but (hopefully) a more fun event to watch. The Olympics keep changing and tweaking the rules of all kinds of sports simply to try to make them more interesting and/or increase their popularity and viewership.