ST #119 - On Baseball

[mpp]

is there really a more perfect sport?


going out to a baseball game is just such an experience
i'm driving up to cincy (about 60 minutes' drive) tomorrow for the reds/yanks game and i'm so excited


i mean, i love football and it's my favorite sport and basketball is good for what it is but baseball is so perfect

the grass, the dirt, the crisp, clean uniforms, the fans, the openness of the park, the sunshine, the hot dogs, the beer (the strolling vendors, for that matter)...


baseball also has mysterious qualities (try to get a copy of Bradd Shore “Baseball”...great essay)...like, it's totally untimed, games could theoretically go on forever (a batter could foul a ball off forever, no runs could get scored to break a tie, perhaps)

what's netphoria's opinion on baseball?

[Beckham]

Originally posted by mpp
what's netphoria's opinion on baseball?

i dont like it

[jczeroman]

baseball sucks and why is this a standard topic?

Baseball is only fun for drunk people/kids. I don't even think the players themselves like it (i.e. strikes).

Here's for seats stickier than movie theatres and entertainment far worse than the new star wars movies.

[Beckham]

Originally posted by jczeroman
baseball sucks

agree

[guz]

Originally posted by mpp
is there really a more perfect sport?

hockey, soccer, basketball, football, mud wrestling, tennis, golf, volleyball, cricket, jai lai, gymnastics, polo...

[Nimrod's Son]

Baseball is #1.
Unlike all of the other sports (basketball, football, hockey), there's no clock, which means literally anything can happen. You're team is down by 5 in the 9th? You can still have a comeback. In the other sports the result is usually a foregone conclusion before the end.
Plus they play 162 games. The other sports are lazy.

[Beckham]

how does that make the sport any more perfect? the game could last forever....great.

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by Beckham
how does that make the sport any more perfect? the game could last forever....great.

Yeah, so can basketball (overtime).

It's not about the fact that the game can "last forever" it's about the fact that the adage "it aint over 'til it's over" is true. Anyone can come back.

[jczeroman]

Originally posted by Beckham
the game could last forever....great.

cricket sucks too... here's to 5 days of watching morons run between two poles.

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by jczeroman


cricket sucks too... here's to 5 days of watching morons run between two poles.

Cricket is a sport for players that aren't good enough to play baseball.

[Beckham]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Cricket is a sport for players that aren't good enough to play baseball.

hahah awesome

[El Savior]

it's my favorite sport

[Sammy Sosa]

Baseball has been very, very good to me.

http://espn-ak.starwave.com/media/ml.../a_sosa_ft.jpg

[guz]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Baseball is #1.
Unlike all of the other sports (basketball, football, hockey), there's no clock, which means literally anything can happen. You're team is down by 5 in the 9th? You can still have a comeback. In the other sports the result is usually a foregone conclusion before the end.
Plus they play 162 games. The other sports are lazy.

-it's slow and boring. every few minutes there's a play made, then back to standing around.
-how many -legit- contenders are there?
-george steinbrenner
-fuck baseball, and their union demands
-it's america's past-time, stop living in the past
-it's slow and boring
-no salary cap
-no steroid testing

-baseball has been going so downhill, it's almost sad.
-oh, it's slow and boring

[El Savior]

Originally posted by Sammy Sosa
bezbaul 'az bean ve-ey goo' to' me

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by Sammy Sosa
Baseball has been very, very good to me.

http://espn-ak.starwave.com/media/ml.../a_sosa_ft.jpg

You're not typing the accent correctly.

[crescentfresh]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
You're not typing the accent correctly.

no shit. it's "belly, belly."

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by guz

-it's slow and boring. every few minutes there's a play made, then back to standing around.
-how many -legit- contenders are there?
-george steinbrenner
-fuck baseball, and their union demands
-it's america's past-time, stop living in the past
-it's slow and boring
-no salary cap
-no steroid testing

-baseball has been going so downhill, it's almost sad.
-oh, it's slow and boring

Yes, watching 5 criminals and 5 thugs run 20 feet back and forth putting a ball through a hoop for 3 hours is much more exciting.

[jczeroman]

At least in basketball and football there is no chew on the court/field

[Fathoms (unadored)]

Baseball is more like a game than a sport. I'm extremely out of shape but it wouldn't be too difficult for me to go over the diamond and play for a couple hours. But if I were too play any of the other major north american sports I wouldn't last twenty minutes before the exertion takes its toll. And everything in baseball is so dependant on a single player (the pitcher) that it almost doesn't qualify as a team game.

[guz]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Yes, watching 5 criminals and 5 thugs run 20 feet back and forth putting a ball through a hoop for 3 hours is much more exciting.

since you put it that way, yes, it's MUCH more exciting than baseball.

anyhow, it's all about hockey.

[jczeroman]

well, I would say the best sport is football, not professional football, but COLLEGE FOOTBALL

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by Fathoms (unadored)
Baseball is more like a game than a sport. I'm extremely out of shape but it wouldn't be too difficult for me to go over the diamond and play for a couple hours. But if I were too play any of the other major north american sports I wouldn't last twenty minutes before the exertion takes its toll. And everything in baseball is so dependant on a single player (the pitcher) that it almost doesn't qualify as a team game.

Nor would it be difficult for you to play a pickup game of basketball with friends, or some touch football perhaps. I can see you've probably never played past Little League.

[guz]

Originally posted by jczeroman
well, I would say the best sport is football, not professional football, but COLLEGE FOOTBALL

college sports in general, get the nod over pro. it's just sad to see the level of play in college sports (in football, basketball) dropping now a days with all the early entries to pro drafts.

[Nimrod's Son]

1. Baseball
2. Hockey
3. Football
4. Basketball
5. Women's Gymnastics (perv factor)

[Beckham]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Nor would it be difficult for you to play a pickup game of basketball with friends, or some touch football perhaps. I can see you've probably never played past Little League.

basketball with friends is tough, maybe your friends dont play it to win, but mine do. One of my friends tore an ACL playing "a pickup game". So im guessing that un-fit guy probably couldnt. Touch football still involves constant running

[Eulogy]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Yes, watching 5 criminals and 5 thugs run 20 feet back and forth putting a ball through a hoop for 3 hours is much more exciting.

While I'm no fan of the NBA, this statement is just dumb.

In a basketball game, the action is at least somewhat continuous. Baseball is just....slow. Too slow. I mean, listen to a game on the radio and listen to what the announcers are talking about. It's terrible. They can only talk so much about the game...because there's rarely anything going on. Five games into the season they were discussing who was in first place and if they'll be able to stay there and such... Uhm. My point. What was it...oh yeah, baseball is boring. Ooooh, anything can happen! There's still hope!! How old are you? 6?

And the 162-game season is certainly not a positive thing. Since it's not boring enough already, let's stretch it out so much that a team can go on a 38-game losing streak and still make the playoffs. I mean, really now. Every team plays almost every day. It's fucking annoying if you're not a fan. If I want to look at the bottom line thing on ESPN or whatever to find out the outcome of some other sporting event, I have to watch baseball scores scroll by for about 10 minutes. But that's irrelevant, so nevermind.

[guz]

Originally posted by Nimrod's Son
Nor would it be difficult for you to play a pickup game of basketball with friends, or some touch football perhaps. I can see you've probably never played past Little League.

i'd love to see a MLB player play 40+ minutes of an NBA game, have 25+ carries in an NFL game, or skate 20+ in an NHL game.

i'll be you right now though, that an NBA/NFL/NHL player can stand out on the field and fetch a baseball.....and later swing at one.

[Nimrod's Son]

Originally posted by guz
college sports in general, get the nod over pro. it's just sad to see the level of play in college sports (in football, basketball) dropping now a days with all the early entries to pro drafts.

I stopped following college sports as much as I used to because of a number of factors.
- good players leave after sophomore year
- too much turnover - teams ripped apart every year (see above)
- too much corruption
- players taken advantage of
- players given a free ride through educational system (I am OK with scholarships, but I went to school with a couple of players now in the NFL and NBA. Let's just say they didn't have to come to class or do assignments).

[jczeroman]

Originally posted by guz
college sports in general, get the nod over pro. it's just sad to see the level of play in college sports (in football, basketball) dropping now a days with all the early entries to pro drafts.

NO KIDDING! On one hand I wish there was a rule, on the other the primary reason they are there (yea right) is because they are students. Education is a privlige not a right, so they shouldn't be forced to stay.