The never ending story....

Unfortunately the month of April is approaching which means that Baseball is beginning. And for me this is very sad. See to me baseball is a lot like the never ending story. Baseball will start in april and it wont be over until October. Why? Why does baseball have to be played 8 out of the 12 months. Why do they have to play 14 billion games in a year( its really only 162 but close enough). Now don't get me wrong, I love all sports. But at times I disagree with sports. This is where football has it all figured out. Once you reach the playoffs you get one shot to win and this adds something to every game. Not in baseball though, in baseball you get 7 games to prove you should move on. And the thing that bothers me most of all is that it is the only sport that supports mediocrity. I had never really thought about it until I was watching the movie Martian Child. In the movie the main character is teaching his adopted son how to play baseball and he says the line, "if you hit 3 out of every 10 balls you are a star, but if you do just a little bit better than that just a little bit... than you are a superstar." REALLY????? Why in the world would that make you a superstar and why should you get a million dollars to do so. If you are good 30% of the time you are great. REALLY? I wish it was that way in school. If I got a 30% on a test I would be on the verge of failing a class. But not in baseball. I understand that to many people baseball is still americas sport but I would much rather watch a sport where being mediocre is not the goal.