The game can appear slow and boring to those who don't know its intricacies. It is however perhaps the most complex cerebral game situation sport around. Chess with human pawns. Also a great way to spend a day!
The game can appear slow and boring to those who don't know its intricacies. It is however perhaps the most complex cerebral game situation sport around. Chess with human pawns. Also a great way to spend a day!
Ca$hclay wrote:
The game can appear slow and boring to those who don't know its intricacies. It is however perhaps the most complex cerebral game situation sport around. Chess with human pawns. Also a great way to spend a day!
It's also dying in the USA at the youth level due to a lack of interest. It can't compete with soccer in popularity as more kids are involved with that.
OP is clearly either an SF Giants or Yankees fan.
Ca$hclay wrote:
The game can appear slow and boring to those who don't know its intricacies. It is however perhaps the most complex cerebral game situation sport around. Chess with human pawns. Also a great way to spend a day!
No, many understand the simple concepts of the game, which plays more like advanced checkers. Lack of action is why many find it boring.
Maybe not but it's still better to watch than running.
Not true. You're just jealous and pissed off that nobody finds ectomorphs running in circles.
Most sports are boring to watch, some possibly exciting to play/participate, whereas others less exciting to participate but good for you anyway.
Seeing 'excitement' in it only really happens when you are a fan of team.
TV stations just hype it up
There's lots more on TV with more excitement than sports, even 'wipeout' or 'ninja', at leaqst you can laugh at some people getting hurt even
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Baseball is boring. Period
Athletically nothing rivals the NBA as a whole. Individually, NFL cornerbacks are the best athletes in the world
Yeah, what could be more exciting than a Div-3 conference 10k on the track?
Baseball is boring which is why their parks sell beer.
MLB in North America had attendance of 72 million people followed by Nippon (Japan) professional baseball with attendance of 25 million. Another 22 million attended minor league baseball double and triple A.
That's over 119 million total attendance. Somebody must like to watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues
Cool. Regardless of what you said being right or wrong, it is still incredibly boring for most people. The most energy used by the overwhelming majority of the players is the jog in and out of the dugout each inning.
It's the second most watched sport in America. For most people, the idea of watching anything more than a 2 lap race is incredibly boring.
How, on three pages of this thread, have only TWO people commented on the irony of a bunch of distance kids arguing the merits of whether or not baseball is boring?
Now post a video of that many hot chicks at a track meet, paying attention or not. Olympic 100m doesn't count.
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Where did I say you could? Quit twisting words.
You said failing 2/3 of the time is greatness, but your lack of understanding of success and failure for a hitter betrays your idiocy.
Jeezus urine idiot. The topic was putting the bat on the ball, and hitting safely, NOT ops. Stop being such a pedantic fool/
"Most difficult coordination activity in all sports is to hit a round baseball with a round wooden bat. Fastball: as fast as 104 mph. Slider: as fast as 90 plus mph. Curve ball: app. 70 mph. Change-up, app. 80 mph."
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You said failing 2/3 of the time is greatness, but your lack of understanding of success and failure for a hitter betrays your idiocy.
Jeezus urine idiot. The topic was putting the bat on the ball, and hitting safely, NOT ops. Stop being such a pedantic fool/
"Most difficult coordination activity in all sports is to hit a round baseball with a round wooden bat. Fastball: as fast as 104 mph. Slider: as fast as 90 plus mph. Curve ball: app. 70 mph. Change-up, app. 80 mph."
Are arguing that BA is a better measure than OPS? That's actually 19th century thinking as that's about all they could measure then.
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Jeezus urine idiot. The topic was putting the bat on the ball, and hitting safely, NOT ops. Stop being such a pedantic fool/
"Most difficult coordination activity in all sports is to hit a round baseball with a round wooden bat. Fastball: as fast as 104 mph. Slider: as fast as 90 plus mph. Curve ball: app. 70 mph. Change-up, app. 80 mph."
Are arguing that BA is a better measure than OPS? That's actually 19th century thinking as that's about all they could measure then.
You are either a complete idiot or a master troller. Where did I, or anyone on this thread make that claim? You responded to a post about the difficulty of hitting by at first claiming it wasn't difficult, then when called out on that, tried to change the topic to OPS. What are you going to do next, WAR?
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MLB in North America had attendance of 72 million people followed by Nippon (Japan) professional baseball with attendance of 25 million. Another 22 million attended minor league baseball double and triple A.
That's over 119 million total attendance. Somebody must like to watch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attendance_figures_at_domestic_professional_sports_leagues
Yes, some people obviously like to go to the games and also watch them at home. How many of them are their for a social event or are there to actually engage completely in the game is not able to be gathered from your info. If I got free tickets, I might consider going to a baseball game because of the extremely laid back atmosphere allows for one to engage in a full on conversation with limited attention to the game, allowing you to miss very little. In addition, how many of those people in your numbers are the same people being counted multiple times? Regardless, there is obviously a much larger amount of people in the US and world that don't go to professional baseball games. Thanks for the facts.
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Are arguing that BA is a better measure than OPS? That's actually 19th century thinking as that's about all they could measure then.
You are either a complete idiot or a master troller. Where did I, or anyone on this thread make that claim? You responded to a post about the difficulty of hitting by at first claiming it wasn't difficult, then when called out on that, tried to change the topic to OPS. What are you going to do next, WAR?
I didn't say it wasn't difficult. I said the difficulty is only relative to the quality of pitching (good batters will annihilate relatively lesser pitching) and also fielding (good batter hit good pitchers very well but the ball is often fielded).
You keep spewing the hushed sanctimony about people failing 2/3 of the time and making the hall of fame. You seem pretty butthurt that I pointed out the total nonsense that that is.
"You keep spewing the hushed sanctimony about people failing 2/3 of the time and making the hall of fame. You seem pretty butthurt that I pointed out the total nonsense that that is.:
Please provide the list of players with a .333 average that aren't in the Hall of Fame. Since you are such a fastidious little prick, make that players retired at least 5 years, and not involved in the PED scandal.
As I've said repeatedly, success for a batter is getting on base (not getting a hit). I don't care to look up players who succeeded more than a third of the time (OBP) and who are not in the hall of fame but there are plenty.