Baseball is a game that requires the fans actually to understand it and pay attention. Unlike basketball, which primarily requires the fans to spend the whole game listening to very expensive shoes squeak, or hockey, which consists of watching people get paid to skate around waving sticks until a fight breaks out, or football, in which twelve sides of beef on each team collide violently over a.nd over again to little purpose, baseball is an exquisitely tuned balance of skill, power, finesse, mind and endurance that requires the fans to rise to the occasion rather than slumping back in mindless torpor. Let those of lower capacity sink to the level of those other so-called sports; the fans capable of appreciating baseball rightly treasure the one game that brings out the best in them.
I’d rather watch grass grow than watch baseball. Oh, wait, when I watch baseball, I AM watching grass grow!(Full disclosure: I don’t watch hockey, basketball, or soccer either.)
Baseball is a thinking man’s game that pits the ability of the individual against a team of nine. It reminds me of the line from Star Wars about Obi wan-Kenobi’s light saber, “A more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.”
My problem with baseball is that players do too many time-wasting activities which has stretched a nine-inning game to sometimes way past three hours! In the old days, a nine-inning baseball game finishes somewhere between 2 hours 15 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes; maybe strict enforcement of time limits between pitches, a bigger strike zone call, and forcing batters to stay in the batter’s box would cut the time of the game to make it a lot more palatable to modern viewers.
mdcatdad almost 10 years ago
It just LOOKS ugly
rugeirn almost 10 years ago
Baseball is a game that requires the fans actually to understand it and pay attention. Unlike basketball, which primarily requires the fans to spend the whole game listening to very expensive shoes squeak, or hockey, which consists of watching people get paid to skate around waving sticks until a fight breaks out, or football, in which twelve sides of beef on each team collide violently over a.nd over again to little purpose, baseball is an exquisitely tuned balance of skill, power, finesse, mind and endurance that requires the fans to rise to the occasion rather than slumping back in mindless torpor. Let those of lower capacity sink to the level of those other so-called sports; the fans capable of appreciating baseball rightly treasure the one game that brings out the best in them.
DaveBj almost 10 years ago
I’d rather watch grass grow than watch baseball. Oh, wait, when I watch baseball, I AM watching grass grow!(Full disclosure: I don’t watch hockey, basketball, or soccer either.)
hippogriff almost 10 years ago
akwolffan: But at least they have tea breaks occasionally.
kcdc75 almost 10 years ago
Baseball is a thinking man’s game that pits the ability of the individual against a team of nine. It reminds me of the line from Star Wars about Obi wan-Kenobi’s light saber, “A more elegant weapon for a more civilized age.”
Sacto1624 almost 10 years ago
My problem with baseball is that players do too many time-wasting activities which has stretched a nine-inning game to sometimes way past three hours! In the old days, a nine-inning baseball game finishes somewhere between 2 hours 15 minutes to 2 hours 30 minutes; maybe strict enforcement of time limits between pitches, a bigger strike zone call, and forcing batters to stay in the batter’s box would cut the time of the game to make it a lot more palatable to modern viewers.