1) Willie Mays 1,000 Watt smile

2) The 2011 World Series

3) Tommy John Surgery

4) Watching Ron Washington hopping around in the dugout is a hell of a lot more fun than watching some guy with a clipboard in a headset scream at a guy up in a booth somewhere.

5) Albert Pujols

6) One of these days Teddy will win, unlike the Cubs

7) Daniel Snyder owns the Redskins, 'nuff said 

8) They have great stuff at minor league baseball games like bat races. At minor league football games, oh wait there is no minor league football.

9) They have Arena Football which they play after they've cleaned up from the tractor pull.

10) The Hot Stove League

11) Stephen Strassburg 

12) In football you have nicknames like The Steel Curtain and The Orange Crush. In baseball you have the Daffiness Boys and the Idiots.

13) The Bad News Bears (the original, not the crappy remake)

14) Red Barber, Mel Allen, Russ Hodges, Vin Sculley, Bob Prince, Ernie Harwell, Jack Brickhouse, Bob Wolff, Dizzy Dean, Gordon McLendon, Bob Prince, Chuck Thompson, Phil Rizzuto, Jon Miller, Joe Nuxhall, Harry and Skip Caray, Bob Euker

15) You can still get a seat at the ballpark for $5

16) Brian Wilson's beard

17) Hall of Fame inductees not required to wear mustard colored double knit sport coats.

18) Fans not required to travel cross country to watch championship game

19) Walk up music

20)  The hot foot

21)  The Cape Cod League

22) The (unwritten) Code

23)  Gives George Will and I something to talk about

24) Jackie Robinson

25) The moment when a game is on the line and a pitcher strikes out a batter to end the inning and then walks off the field like nothing has happened while everyone else is going crazy