I guess I could’ve worded this, “Do you actually watch Spring Training games,” too.
Today marks the start of Grapefruit and Cactus League action. There are a few games against unaffiliated teams, too. But the full slate really begins tomorrow.
Me, I’ll watch pretty much any MLB baseball. Though the pitch clock made it somewhat harder in some ways, I’m still aiming to watch about three games a day this upcoming season. Spring Training games, though… they’re too unserious for me to pay real attention to. Not that I begrudge them this, as the point is really just for players to get up to speed — but it’s just too divorced from what resembles competition to be interesting for me. So I’ll usually turn it on, and lose interest when the re-insertions or full-scale substitutions start happening. I’ll leave ‘em on in the background, sure, but it’s not appointment viewing time, like the new regular-season-with-pitch-clock is now forced to be.
What about you?