Why the f**k is baseball so boring?

the classy team wrote:

Need I remind you all the Yankees have 27 world series wins.

How many countries participate in the world series?

doot doot wrote:

Star wrote:

As opposed to watching a marathon.

If you've ever been able to run even a single mile at elite marathon pace you'd find it exciting. Watching elite races gives me a huge adrenaline rush.

Hopefully baseball dies with the Boomers.

If you've ever been in the box with a 95 mph fastball, you'd find it exciting. Or if you've ever had a curve ball coming at you, you'd understand what's actually happening and how incredibly difficult the sport is.

It's real simple - baseball is not boring to large numbers of people. If you think baseball is boring, feel free to change the channel or not attend baseball games.

And seriously, do you have any idea how boring most people consider track and field? Track is not boring if you know anything about it, but that's true of all sports.

doot doot wrote:

Star wrote:

As opposed to watching a marathon.

If you've ever been able to run even a single mile at elite marathon pace you'd find it exciting. Watching elite races gives me a huge adrenaline rush.

Hopefully baseball dies with the Boomers.

These sorts of questions almost never get answered here, but if you dislike baseball so much why do watch it, if you do, and if you don't watch it, why would you start a thread about it? I feel the same way about hockey and golf as you do about baseball but I don't complain about the sports. I just don't watch them.

By the way, the answer to your question is that baseball is boring to you because you don't like it. It isn't boring to people who do and no, not all of those people are Boomers.

well,. wrote:

the classy team wrote:

Need I remind you all the Yankees have 27 world series wins.

How many countries participate in the world series?

That's a silly argument. Every country participates because the best baseball players in the world play in the MLB. You don't have would-be 10 time all stars playing down in Brazil on teams that could beat the Cubs or Indians right now. Same thing with the NBA and NFL championship teams, they are the best in the world.

george oscar bluth wrote:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323740804578597932341903720

10% of action...that's all folks.

"What's the bottom line? When we compare total action to total down time—even including debatable action such as pitches, trots and pickoff throws—total action time is 17:58. The average game time was 2 hours and 58 seconds, so the action portion of a typical game is 10%. That leaves 90% of the game as down time. Individually, the Twins-Tigers game percentage was 9 minutes of action vs. 91 minutes of inaction; the slugfest game percentage was 11 vs. 89 (spendthrifts dig the long ball) and the pitchers' duel was 9 vs. 91."

I would wager more countries are represented in MLB than most sports.

If more countries want to add teams and become competitive, there is nothing stopping them.

As for the Yankees having the highest payroll ... not true in 2016. Or 2015. Or 2014.

I’m doing great thank you wrote:

george oscar bluth wrote:http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323740804578597932341903720

10% of action...that's all folks.

"What's the bottom line? When we compare total action to total down time—even including debatable action such as pitches, trots and pickoff throws—total action time is 17:58. The average game time was 2 hours and 58 seconds, so the action portion of a typical game is 10%. That leaves 90% of the game as down time. Individually, the Twins-Tigers game percentage was 9 minutes of action vs. 91 minutes of inaction; the slugfest game percentage was 11 vs. 89 (spendthrifts dig the long ball) and the pitchers' duel was 9 vs. 91."

Football is even worse. Average action time is about 11 minutes. 10:1 inaction to action ratio.

Nothing like a bunch of pu$$y boys talking $hit about baseball. Running is a niche Olympic sport that is dying, baseball is the American past time. Eff off.

Bet you fgts can't even run sub 15 for a 5k.

1) Yankees are 1-3 in payroll every year, almost never in contention. The dodgers and Cubs have high payrolls, and they are/we're competing for a championship.

2) A track 5k comes out to 2%. 4,900 meters of nothing and 100 meters of action.

Doctor wrote:

Nothing like a bunch of pu$$y boys talking $hit about baseball. Running is a niche Olympic sport that is dying, baseball is the American past time. Eff off.

Bet you fgts can't even run sub 15 for a 5k.

Past time from a past time-- the Civil War era.

There's a reason football crushes baseball in viewership.

I don't watch golf, baseball, or Magic card tournaments and it's because they're not sports. "Finesse/skill activities" is more suiting.

Dial it up wrote:

1) Yankees are 1-3 in payroll every year, almost never in contention.

Yankees' opening day payroll was 2 1/2 times more than the Indians this year. So classy.

doot doot wrote:

Doctor wrote:

Nothing like a bunch of pu$$y boys talking $hit about baseball. Running is a niche Olympic sport that is dying, baseball is the American past time. Eff off.

Bet you fgts can't even run sub 15 for a 5k.

Past time from a past time-- the Civil War era.

There's a reason football crushes baseball in viewership.

I don't watch golf, baseball, or Magic card tournaments and it's because they're not sports. "Finesse/skill activities" is more suiting.

I would disagree with this statement but according to your logic running could be argued as not being a sport because there is no skill involved.

doot doot wrote:

There's a reason football crushes baseball in viewership.

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Baseball is more of a sport than XC

It's a good sport for people with no interest in staying in shape and being fit.

Witness the fitness wrote:

It's a good sport for people with no interest in staying in shape and being fit.

Claims like this are so stupid. I bet most runners on here can't even back squat 2x their body weight, and in my opinion you aren't all that fit or in shape if you can't do that. Baseball players develop their bodies to be good at baseball, not distance running. That doesn't mean runners are more or less "fit."

Dial it up wrote:

Witness the fitness wrote:

It's a good sport for people with no interest in staying in shape and being fit.

Claims like this are so stupid. I bet most runners on here can't even back squat 2x their body weight, and in my opinion you aren't all that fit or in shape if you can't do that. Baseball players develop their bodies to be good at baseball, not distance running. That doesn't mean runners are more or less "fit."

John Kruk, David Wells, Babe Ruth, Mo Vaughn and CC Sabathia are all poster children for the Fitness Council.

How hard is an activity (pseudo sport) that can have 162 games in its season?

Anyone know how many matches the professional chess circuit has? Probably fewer than baseball.

All that opinion piece tells me is the NFL is more popular and apparently the numbers indicate a spike in viewership of MLB.

"So, understand, the NFL is by far more popular than MLB due to its event driven nature (games primarily played on Sunday), and limited inventory (16 games compared to 162 in MLB), yet is seeing a decline in youth viewership. This speaks to a change in media consumption at-large, not just MLB. Not just the NFL. Not just sports. The media landscape with 900+ channels, plus the internet, plus gaming consoles, has created massive competition for viewership eyeballs compared to even a decade ago."

(Ratings data can't take into account illegal streaming of NFL which is how 75% of people I know view games. The only people I know who watch baseball are nostalgic old who make their kids play.)