... If I sat out here for a couple more hours maybe the ball would be hit to me... ZZZZZZZ

    From my experience with them, the more informal sports are, the better. I, some years back, tried playing baseball and most of what I recall is standing out in right (or perhaps left) field wondering if the ball would ever get out to me. It never did. In all the games I played I only got one hit. It went two inches and hit the ground with considerable force and bounced directly into the pitcher's mitt.
    That was my main experinece with sports. I don't follow any sport or watch them on television. If you try to talk to me about them in any way exept the simplest terms (throw, hit, tackle, catch) you will most likely get a blank look.
   I don't think that sports are a good thing. My brother has taken a large fancy with football. That is all he will play with his "friends" (or rather acquaintances) and on Sundays (when it was football season) most all he would do was sit on the couch and watch it. He has decided that when he grows up he will be a football player, despite the fact that he is below the 50th percentile for weight and hight for his age, and that liking football is the only way to be cool and make friends.
   Almost none of this has been a good thing for him. He has taken up company with the only people who will play football with him.The neighborhood 10-year-old jerks. He is also scorning the companionship of his brothers who do not share in his enthusiasm, and  becomes very irritable when reminded of his size.\
   I think that sports may be good when played informally and recreationally, but when they cause upset in millions of people just because one man's shot was one inch off... well that just doesn't sound benificial in any way shape or form.
   I don't think that most sports were ever good. The people on the losing teams of the Inca games were executed. The Greek Olympics were no better than today's sports and were also part of a pagen ritual and sexist. Married women were not allowed to watch and no women were allowed to participate. The Native American game of lacrosse most always resulted in massive injures, broken bones, deaths, and a ton of hard feelings. Joisting, and duels were massively expensive and disastrous with many deaths, and games like cock fighting and bear baiting were cruel As it is most all passed sports, as well as some current ones, involved death and injury to both animals and humans.
    To define sports, I think they are a bit like art: if it serves no purpose, then it's a sport.