They just require a certain level of experience and understanding. If you find a sport boring ask yourself have you ever played the sport before? How many times have you played it? Do you know anyone else that plays it? Do you know the basic stategies being used? Do you have a rooting interest?
Why do we watch sports anyway? To be entertained by exceptional skill, high level execution, teamwork, and athletic ability. How can you know what’s skillful or high level execution and you’ve never played a real game before?
How do you determine if someone is overpaid?
We all do with our money. If you value someone catching a ball more than someone saving your family member from dying, providing you necessary resources for life, teaching children how to be a knowledgeable adult, etc., then you should definitely give your money to the person playing the child’s game because you feel what they do is worth millions more than all those other people.
I personally don’t think they’re worth any of my money so I don’t give them any of it.
It’s just entertainment unless your playing the sport yourself. You’re missing out on an experience. Oh well. You do you.
I’m probably more extreme than Schwim on this point. I did some napkin math and upwards of $1 trillion is spent annually on professional sports. If we lived in a post-scarcity world then whatever, but that’s too large a sum for me to be comfortable spending on entertainment in a world with so many sick, starving, and homeless people. And for what, a children’s game that capitalizes on tribalism? That’s an experience I’m happy to live without.