Reply #5: MLB -- fans want home runs.

[kaitykaity]

As one of my favorite sports columnists likes to argue,
people don't go to ball games to see punch and judy
singles, squeeze 'em out bunts, stolen bases, sac flies.

Fans go to see the big boppers. Fans want to see the balls
fly out of the yard.

So for years and years it's been a wink wink nod nod by
everybody in and around the league -- of course those
guys are juiced, but who cares as long as the long balls fly?

I really don't think fans want to see these spoiled NBA
players acting like thugs on and off the court. Remember
when Rasheed Wallace accosted an official after a game and
was only given a 7-day suspension? Or ahow about letting
Latrell Spreewell come back after he choked PJ Carlissimo?
(Not that PJ isn't an asshole, but he didn't deserve to be
choked.)