***Official Baseball Sucks Thread***
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I was decent at baseball. I hung dong on a guy that played for the Hawks. I even made a 2nd team All-State team, which was undeserved.
Never could hit a ******* curveball though..
Me too in football. Fall Saturdays are great and I grew up around it.
And I don't even follow baseball but the actual chess match that takes place is far more fascinating than one team simply being more physically capable and using that to win.
Do you know what is better than the “chess match” in baseball? An actual chess match.
But so many baseball games involve 1- 4 runs scored in 3+ hours. At least with football I can get 5 - 10 scores in that same time. Plus with football there are a lot of exciting non-scoring plays. Not so much in baseball: groundout, strike out, walk, fly out, ball one, ball two, strike one, foul ball, ball three, foul ball, foul ball, single to left.... At our football games we jump up and high five maybe 25 times. At a baseball game, maybe on average you get about 5 things to get that enthused about. At least for me this is true.
If you can't appreciate the beauty of a breaking ball, or watching grown ass men do stuff like this:
Then I can't help you.
I'll take, "Stupid things people do when the actual game is too ******* boring" for $1000, Alex.
At least in football, when a play is happening there are actually multiple players all moving. In baseball the pitcher moves, the batter moves (or stands there), then the catcher moves. Lots more action during football play.
Also in baseball almost all of one of the teams (the team not on the field) is sitting down half the time. Boring is half the game!
Also in baseball almost all of one of the teams (the team not on the field) is sitting down half the time. Boring is half the game!
I'm tired of the shift and don't understand why more players don't do that.
I like the MLB postseason becasue then the "chess match" stuff and strategy are more in line with the stakes, but the regular season is entirely too long. The NBA suffers from a similar problem. The difference between the two is that there's more consistent movement and action in an NBA game. There's too much standing around and waiting in a typical MLB game. The average length of a game isn't the issue. If something is interesting then I generally don't have a problem committing 3-4 hours of time on a weekend or evening. But the pace of play...good grief.
It's not that baseball is slow, it's that the defense controls the ball and thus devotes all their time trying to prevent anything exciting from happening.
Imagine if basketball consisted of periods where the defense stood around the 3 point line playing a game of keep away with one offensive player getting three chances to intercept the pass and score a bucket with 9 defenders collapsing on him.
They need to give more advantages to the offensive team, or they will never draw in more people. A 4 pitch walk should be 2 bases. Make it an even bigger penalty if the pitcher can't or won't put the ball in the strike zone. 3 hours of trying to catch the corners of the plate is not interesting.
Imagine if basketball consisted of periods where the defense stood around the 3 point line playing a game of keep away with one offensive player getting three chances to intercept the pass and score a bucket with 9 defenders collapsing on him.
They need to give more advantages to the offensive team, or they will never draw in more people. A 4 pitch walk should be 2 bases. Make it an even bigger penalty if the pitcher can't or won't put the ball in the strike zone. 3 hours of trying to catch the corners of the plate is not interesting.
Changes to the game? Forget it. The DH rule was implemented in the AL like fifty years ago and people still can't even get on board with that.
Those that get bored during baseball, just do what you do at football, basketball or even hockey games. Sneak a peak at the cheerleaders or the dance squad. Something to check out during breaks in action.
Or to scared to even step in the box with a 90 mph ball flying anywhere near them.
Yeah, watching thatgo by you is so much scarier than a 300+ lb dlineman actually picking you up, slam you into the ground and drive into you.
It might be tough for a few of you to wrap your heads around, but people can play a sport and not enjoy watching it.
I decided i didn’t care for baseball when in the outfield and found myself bored since it was a pitchers duel and there wasn’t any physical contact even. I didn’t go out the next season. It was more fun in the youth stuff when infielders let everything by them and you would get a lot of action.
