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>>>I don't understand why but there are actually some people in this world who think a 10-8 baseball game is more exciting than a 1-0 game.
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>>I suspect that a 10-8 ballgame would be roughly 10 times more exciting because there would probably be a large amount of activity on both sides. A 1-0 game would have many attempts at scoring which would be blocked and would cause disappointment.
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>>:)
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>This is why soccer will never catch on ;-)

I worked in Tallahassee with a guy who coached a youth travelling soccer team. His comment on why the sport will never catch on as a spectator sport was 'Americans will never watch a sport where the phrase "an insurmountable one goal lead" has some basis in reality."