Football or baseball?

For me it's football but it used to be baseball and while I was walking the dogs this morning I was thinking that my switch to football parallels my move away from numbers.
I started college as a math major but grew frustrated with what I experienced as a gaping, yawning, dark and menacing chasm between the increasing abstraction you experience in upper-level mathematics and, you know, LIFE. In grad school I developed a similar aversion to quantitative work - it feels so far from the nitty gritty that makes things interesting and real.
Don't get me wrong, I loved logic and advanced calc and analysis and all that but it seemed empty and disconnected -maybe kind of like what Lacan says about the slipping of signifiers - in my mind it started being little more than brain candy. Anyway, former little leaguer and citizen of Red Sox Nation I may be, but baseball is a little like that- batting averages, pitching stats, a large sample, all this attention focused on the pitcher facing the batter while everyone else stands aside. Give me a short season with weather and lots of folks on the field contributing to the success/failure or each play. It's messy, unpredictable and complicated in its simplicity (4 tries for 10 yards).
So, yeah, that's what I was thinking about.