Physics

Not to beat a dead horse, but my high school was such that I was the physics class one year.
It was difficult to do any experiments in that most involved two people. The class was taught by my track coach, and he wasn't much for words. Smart guy he was, but he was awkward in a Ben Stein, Ferris Bueller's Day Off sort of way. If I hadn't been into track, the class would have been more painful to endure since I had no peers with whom I could pace myself or to have ask questions with regards to perspectives I didn't consider to question.
Asking questions is very important. Science involves things that aren't visible to the naked eye, so conceptually grasping laws and forces is more than parroting definitions and formulas. Coach X warned me that I needed to fudge my experiments' data to match expected results if I were to want to pursue a career in science. There are a few reasons I have a degree in English, and one of them is there's no real solid answer that couldn't be interpreted as 2 + 2 = 5 if you argued your point well enough or had enough rats in a cage to coax such truth.
I never gave up on physics so much as moved on. Heck, the class I did best in as an undergrad was Philosophy 151- Probability and the textbook's title was HOW SCIENCE WORKS.
With Brian Greene being the latter day saint of dumbed down science, I am very much a fan of his introducing me to String Theory. Parallel universes and multiple unseen dimensions help me to mesh the irrational concepts we take for granted as truth based on our various ideologies. For example, I can say that both the Chicken and the Egg came first much like Schrödinger's cat being both Dead and Alive. Why get bent out of shape about something above my pay grade? Life is way too short to care about things that really mean nothing in the grand scheme when happiness is a distraction away.
Distraction is entertainment. Baseball, or any sport for that matter, is a distraction that can be over thought much like anything else. Baseball involves physics and probability, but there are factors in athleticism that make it compelling to watch in addition to simply playing. As a spectator sport, the more skilled the athletes, the more entertaining the game is to watch. Players make money because they are entertaining enough to generate money for their team through selling tickets to the game or through television contracts. All of this is made possible thanks to stadiums built with taxpayers' dollars for the benefit of the poor billionaire owners.