I love watching baseball at the ballpark. Although Major League Baseball is too expensive to attend on a regular basis, minor league and college baseball are one of my favorite ways to spend a summer afternoon. I also enjoy watching live soccer (football). The game is much better live than on TV.
Put me down for baseball too.
I like golf every now and then, not the pro’s, just watching my friends hit…
In person is the only way I will watch baseball and I enjoy it.
My favorite, though, is college basketball. I’m a huge basketball fan and probably commit a lot more resources to it than I should. Season tickets to a major university on Tobbaco Road plus catch as many other games in person as I can.
Jammer
Women’s naked gymnastics.
Baseball and ice hockey (sniff, sniff). I’ll go to just about any kind of game in person, though – baseball and hockey are just my favorites.
I’ve never been to a soccer game, but my BF is a huge Major League Soccer fan, so I imagine that I’ll wind up enjoying those games, too. 
I agree with soccer, and I enjoy watching tennis live too.
Jello wrestling.
Just gotta agree with baseball. I find it fairly dull on TV (most of the time), but I love going to the minor league team here in town. I think mainly it’s the atmosphere; it’s fun to be out with a thousand or so folks watching a game outdoors in the summer, having a few hotdogs or whatever.
Baseball, definitely. I love going to UK games, just because there’s only a small group of us that will sit in those aluminum bleachers in 40 degree weather in March and deal with that wind. Lexington Legends games are ok, too, but I don’t like the way Applebee’s Park is laid out.
I love college club hockey, too, but that’s because UK Cool Cats hockey is legendary for being wild.
Hockey! I love it!
There’s just nothing like it. The action, the cold, the smells, the sounds, the fans, and no matter where I sit, it’s always awesome.
The Avs ROCK!
I really enjoy high school basketball. Games are exciting and unpredictable. The kids play their hearts out–falling all over the floor for loose balls, running and jumping around like rabbits. And everyone is stimulated and rejuvenated from inhaling the strong sweet aroma of healthy young sweat, concentrated in a small heated gym. Where else do you get so much for two dollars?
Baseball (MLB) … season ticket holder here. Watching a good game in person can put you through a range of emotions, which is shared with all the fans around you. We cheer together; we bitch together. And don’t forget the hot dog and beer.
I don’t think hockey will ever be a successful TV sport (though hi-def might change that.) By the time you back the camera off enough to see the whole play, you can’t see the puck. In person, though, the human eye can catch everything.
Some kinds of auto racing are much better in person. TV coverage of sprint car racing shrivels next to the real thing. NASCAR is a mixed bag, though. Television cannot express the visceral thrill of 43 big V-8s screaming past you. However, once the field gets spread out, the real-life fans can’t tell what the hell is happening behind third place. They can rent those multichannel headphone sets, but if you get that hi-tech, you might as well be watching TV.
The strategy and nuance of baseball is not available to the TV viewer, despite the endless commentary. The whole atmosphere, the ballpark fix has to be drunk in through the pores. It’s crunching on peanut shells, and standing up to see if a long fly ball is a home run or just to the warning track. Should they have waved the runner home, or was it reckless? Am I dying for opening day? God, yes.
I’m glad to be at any sporting event in person, but tennis feels a lot more alive to me if I’m actually at the match.
Baseball and basketball, both amateur and pro, the major and the minor leagues.
I love football (“soccer” if you really must), and see all my club’s home games and about 30% of the away games (Thankfully England is quite small).
I also have a season ticket to Surrey Cricket Club and like to watch the England Games when I can get tickets (not that easy).
I am also a fairly regular attendee at boxing shows - amateur and professional.
I also like greyhound and horse racing.
Conversely; I live next to the wimbledon tennis courts and wouldn’t go and watch tennis at gunpoint (and we get cheap tickets as locals).
Baseball in person fan checking in. Go Mets Go BlueClaws
Also I like Arena Football now Go Soul!
Go Soul?? Go Dragons!!
Gotta go with Baseball in person. There is a certain beauty to the freshly manicured grass on the field, the diamond…the crack of the bat, the thwack of the ball hitting the glove…there’s nothing like it. C’mon, baseball season…Start already!!!
My favorite to watch on TV is (NFL) football. Especially if it’s an event & folks come over to join in.
Baseball (boy, that grass is green)
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Tennis (damn, Anna’s legs look better in person - plus, she’s smacking the living shit out of the ball)
Another vote for ML Baseball from a season ticket holder. Even your average games are special when the weather’s nice, you’re there with who you want to be, your hot dog is fixed just right and your beer is cold and full. Then there’s those special moments, like the electricity of Ryan’s 7th nono that literally are one of life’s highlights. I’ve not experienced nearly the same pleasure from any other live sporting event. The next closest thing for me was attending an Olympics.