I hate baseball too. And football. And basketball. And anyother ball.ahhhh....it's refreshing to see I'm not alone in my hatred of baseball.
A sad day :(
- Thread starter Cody
- Start date
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
you missed the point, which means you must play baseball and are therefore brain dead to begin with.
Oh, this thread is gonna get nasty quick.
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Paintball?
all I wanted was to see the highlights of the 40 point shlacking the Jazz put on Washington last night...but no. Instead I get 45 minutes of useless analysis of meaningless games, that nobody wanted to watch in the first place.
I think they would make the same amount of money if they condensed the season into like 40 games. They only sell 25% of the tickets anyway from what I can tell, and I'm sure ratings are pretty low for first 150,0000000000000 GD games they show on TV. Just cut to the chase, stop wasting everyone's time and get the season over with in 6 weeks. Then baseball players can get back to their normally scheduled steroid using, cheeto eating, ego stroking glutenous lives for the rest of the 10 months. Everyone wins.
I think they would make the same amount of money if they condensed the season into like 40 games. They only sell 25% of the tickets anyway from what I can tell, and I'm sure ratings are pretty low for first 150,0000000000000 GD games they show on TV. Just cut to the chase, stop wasting everyone's time and get the season over with in 6 weeks. Then baseball players can get back to their normally scheduled steroid using, cheeto eating, ego stroking glutenous lives for the rest of the 10 months. Everyone wins.
- Location
- Bountiful, land of rocks
I'd be a LOT more interested in baseball if each game meant something. The season is LONG and boring. If there were only 50 games, every game could mean something.
I LOVE baseball and am a respectable player (OK, I was), but MLB is a total yawner.
While, we're fixing sports. I propose a NEW playoff system for the NBA. It suffers from the LENGTH of the playoffs. Why have the regular season when you've got a three month playoff?
My NBA playoff proposal:
first round:
best of three games
second round:
best of five
Conf. championships
best of seven
NBA Champs
best of seven....
That does a few things. First round you could get some surprises like in the NCAA tourney.
Second you could still get some surprises, but you'll have a few SOLID teams there to work with. The conf. championships/NBA championships would actually be interesting as you MIGHT have the best teams there, or not.
Last edited:
Oh, this thread is gonna get nasty quick.
I was just kidding around with him. Besides, there isn't much you can do to defend baseball in the argument about athleticism. I've had this conversation 100's of times with all kinds of people, and not a single one of them can offer up an argument that I can't destroy from the ground up in 15 seconds. It never holds weight.
it's cool if you enjoy it, but enjoy it for what it is. A game. Just like golf, foosball, bowling, mario kart, halo, etc etc.
My only hatred is that I'm force fed it for 12389 days every year. It's like the missionary's in the other thread. I'm not asking for this, and if I wanted to watch it I would seek it out. I want to be taken off the "list" of people that have baseball cruelly mixed with sports on Sportcenter. I guess maybe because I'm college educated I'm not as prone to being duped into believing that it's entertaining just because it's on TV and was forced to play it when I was too young to know anybetter. I thought the slip-n-slide was fun as a kid too, but I don't see any highlights of pro-slip-n-sliders on Sportcenter now do I? That would be more entertaining though.
I'll get over it in a couple days.
Last edited:
look i agree with you on a lot of the points that you make about the game. how ever i think that just as in any other sport of "game" there are athletes and there are fat asses! every game has them. linemen football, fat asses baseball, goalie in hockey, shot put in track and feild, it can be said that there is people in all sports that should not be there!
Tacoma
Et incurventur ante non
- Location
- far enough away
Paintball is fun, at least there's the possibility of a little pain there. Keeps the adrenalin up. But I wouldn't ever pay to play it.
Look on Youtube, it's there. Search "Slip and die" or "Travis Pastrana" or some combination thereof.
cuban b
You're all WEAK SAUCE!
- Location
- pleasant grove, UT
If you've spent any time at professional baseball games, then you would know that most of those "fat slobs" could run circles around most of us. I've watched guys with beer guts run sprints that I can only dream about . Baseball players are a different breed of athlete to be sure, but athletes none the less.
Pitchers are excluded, the only thing that they need is their arm, but they are no less impressive.
I get it, following baseball requires an ability to focus, and playing it is the same x infinity.
my favorite thing is that baseballand samurai season start at the same time.
. Baseball players are a different breed of athlete to be sure, but athletes none the less.Pitchers are excluded, the only thing that they need is their arm, but they are no less impressive.
I get it, following baseball requires an ability to focus, and playing it is the same x infinity.
my favorite thing is that baseballand samurai season start at the same time.
Paintball is fun, at least there's the possibility of a little pain there. Keeps the adrenalin up. But I wouldn't ever pay to play it.
hmm, i'll take a paintball to the grill before I'd take a baseball to the grill.
Skylinerider
Wandering the desert
- Location
- Ephraim
Well, I love baseball. I love to play baseball, I love to watch baseball, and there is nothing better than going to a Bees game with some friends. I HATE the damn "analysts" that jabber on and on during the game on TV. Half the time they don't know what they're talking about, and the other half they still don't know what they are talking about. My wife used to hate baseball until I took her to a Bees game and told her what to look for and how to watch the game. Sure if you don't really watch it does appear boring, but if you pay attention to what the players and coaches are doing it is very interesting. TV takes a lot of that experience away IMO.
Jeremy
total tacoma points: 162
- Location
- MAGNA, land of chewy brown water
it used to be best of 5 then best of seven etc... didnt it? after this season the one thing i would change about the nba, do away with the conferances and divisions. that way the best 16 teams get a chance to be in the playoffs. not the best ten and 6 other crappy teams out of the east.
oh ya baseball sucks, go red sox.
I beg to differ about the hockey goalie. Maybe that's where they put the chubbers in pee wees or something, but from teenage years on up, they've got to be in just as good of shape as the rest of the players. Have you seen how fast they can move? I guarantee a good hockey goalie could punch you in the face without you seeing his fist. Next time you get a chance, pay attention to the goalie making a glove save. They face 90+ mph slap shots and can get in front of it with a heavy-ass glove. I'd like to see you move that fast and accurate with a bare hand.
Cherokeester
Registered User
- Location
- Wellsville Utah
Are professional rock racers and crawlers athletes? How about off-road endurance racers?
Didn't baseball just end. Holy S*** it is like kids soccer never ending. Okay kids get ready to practice for spring soccer, now lets play a summer tournament, okay good job now we have a fall tournament. Well boys instead of ending the season and giving your parents a break how about we go play inside until spring.
I didn't even turn on sportcenter this morning. I knew it would be a waste of time.
Rockcrawler/racers aren't athletes in my defination.
Endurance racers, especially competitive ones, are in rediculous shape. Same for nascar drivers (even though I HATE nascar). Those guys average like 120-140 heart rates for 2-30 hours straight. Thats like running a marathon.
In a 3 hour baseball game, a baseball player might run full speed 100 yards total....maybe. They may jog 300 yards total--but thats pread out into 9 different innings so they jog about 80 feet ever 1/2 hour. WOW. Impressive. My great grandma gets around well enough to do that.
Rockcrawler/racers aren't athletes in my defination.
Endurance racers, especially competitive ones, are in rediculous shape. Same for nascar drivers (even though I HATE nascar). Those guys average like 120-140 heart rates for 2-30 hours straight. Thats like running a marathon.
In a 3 hour baseball game, a baseball player might run full speed 100 yards total....maybe. They may jog 300 yards total--but thats pread out into 9 different innings so they jog about 80 feet ever 1/2 hour. WOW. Impressive. My great grandma gets around well enough to do that.
Last edited: