It's not that simple. I remember a comic strip from years back of a golfer duffing on shot after another. In the first frame, he says "I hate this game." In the second frame, he exclaims the same thing. In the third frame, he asks, "why do I bother playing this game." In the final frame he answers his own question: "Because it's the only fun I have."
That's why he watches the Red Sox.