Haha no, not at all, really. I have been trying to learn a bit about new sports every now and then, and followed Boston Red Sox a bit last season -- only because of promotions. There is a relation to football though, in my case. The same owners of Liverpool bought and transformed Red Sox, and followed some of the same principles in management and transfers (buying talent instead of stars as part of a rebuild, using statistics to find value in training and acquisition, and less reliance on individuals but total team strategy).
Also a shared history... when they took over Red Sox, they hadn't won their title in decades... and finally won it soon after. Same thing happened, for many of the same reasons, once they took over Liverpool.
Baseball is NOT as bad as cricket (to me). Cricket makes me want to cry.