Who likes Baseball? If you like statistics, baseball is the sport for you!
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Who likes Baseball? If you like statistics, baseball is the sport for you!
I smurfIN LOVE BASEBALL
Watched it all the time as a little kid. You bet I'm full grognard. :hyper:
I like playing baseball. And I like watching baseball in person. And I love watching the playoffs and the World Series.
However I don't like trying to watch 182,000 games a season to keep up with my team. So. Ugh.
There really are an astonishing number of games in a baseball season.
Way too many games per season. W/ life I can't keep up w/ it like I used to when I was younger. They REALLY need to cut the regular season by 30 games. If they want to add another round of playoffs to make up the loss of money, I don't mind. But I don't need 162 somewhat meaningless games.
And yet Lonny BooB wastes all of his time with Football Manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mister Adequate
If he thinks that's a game for stat nerds, he should try Out of the Park Baseball.
I enjoy going to baseball games, even minor league ones. I went to a ton of Rockies when I lived in Colorado. However, I cannot watch baseball on TV, and thus cannot regularly follow the sport. For some reason, the game is just too smurfing boring on television.
Nowadays I only care about the Red Sox losing, mostly due to Masshole sports writers and fans like Peter King. Though I still have a soft spot for the Rockies.
*BoB gives baseball a shot and watches a game*Quote:
Originally Posted by Vivi22And yet Lonny BooB wastes all of his time with Football Manager.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mister Adequate
"What is this? Where's the game clock? Why are all these Yanks in pajamas? These announcers sound like they're dead. Why are there innings when they are outside? What the hell is a Baltimore? Are the Nationals Nazi sympathizers?"
Baseball is an amazing sport to follow if you love stats. :D
Not really a baseball fan. I do like to go to a live game and it's good white noise on the radio. But, there's now way I'm watching it on TV.
I would like it even more if the balls were lit on fire. Fireball.
When I've seen it on American TV shows and cartoons it's looked kind of exciting. I watched a bit of a game probably 10 or so years ago now and it was just dull. Nobody hit the ball, the pitcher was just throwing it at the batter and he didn't want to know. Was that a typical baseball experience or did I just get unlucky, and the TV version of baseball with dudes slugging the ball into orbit is the real deal?
That's a pretty typical experience, I'd say. There's a lot of camera shots of dudes chewing gum or people yawning in the crowd because there's just so much damn time between plays and they gotta show something.
For me having baseball on TV is a calming thing. When I was in high school I'd always sit on the couch and do my homework with a ball game playing in the background because it's relaxing and it doesn't demand your constant attention like other sports. In fact you can pretty much just ignore the game until you hear the crowd roar, because that's when something interesting has happened. But the sounds of the ball hitting the catcher's mitt, the sound of wood meeting ball, the droning of the announcers' voices (except for Joe Buck, who is just the worst)...all of that stuff makes baseball good background noise.
Live games are great fun, though. The local minor league team started doing "$1 Thursdays" last summer. Tickets to the game were $1. Hot dogs were $1 each all night. Beers were $1. And I'm not talking watered down Bud Light. They had Saranac IPA on draught for a smurfing dollar. I got wasted with my friends while eating like 7 hotdogs and watching baseball. MLB games are a really good time too, but obviously the tickets, hot dogs, and beers will be significantly more than $1.
I stared at this sentence for a bit and finally figured out you were referring to the pitcher refusing the catcher's hand signals and ended up laughing my ass off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic