One of the big problems with entertainment conglomerates is that they hypnotize large I mean immensely large amount of the population into complete idiocy. What is the grace and beauty in a ball? What do you get out of chasing it? Especially chasing a ball as a profession, a career? And especially what do you get out of watching somebody chasing it?
I could totally see the entertainment value in video games because there's a lot of skill and beauty and world building and just creative labor that went video games.
I just went by a bar in Williamsburg with televisions blaring and players huddled on top of something on a green field and people yelling and I'm like that's the most idiotic thing I've ever seen.
Yell at something that's truly awesome, I don't know a rocket launch perhaps?
Of course this is one of the many reasons young people left television behind.
Even a video game that displays ball players is a lot more awesome simply because there's such a wonderful product that's a simulated reality and it's by its nature very interesting because it is a parallel reality developed out of basically electricity and some silicon.
Every time I see someone who is chasing a ball for a living I'm like I can't believe somebody tricked that human into that wretched experience of their life. Every dog does it even better.