Why is baseball so hard to get into? I'm not talking about the game itself, but rather the MLB league. A team plays over a hundred games per season. There is no way, for me at least, to be able to follow all of it and be able to hold a conversation with baseball fans. I liked the Mets (they were referenced a lot in Everybody Loves Raymond) and watched their games for a season. But I could only follow them and knew only them, their players and their games. It seems like, in order to follow baseball in America, you really need to dedicate your entire free time to just that.