I had to go to a Dodgers game one time. On mini-bat night. The ice cream at least was good. Also, a bunch of bored kids, who have been given sugar, in possession of mini-bats…
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Watching sports like baseball while tripping on LSD is a great way to either become deeply engaged with the game on many more different levels than can be imagined, and it can be a little overwhelming and sometimes even a bit sublime and beautiful.
Playing baseball while on LSD, however…
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Mini-bat night was always insane.
I don’t think they do that anymore.
Gee, wonder why?
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Our mini bat fest promptly ended when someone got a giant goose egg on their head.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Every sport is boring if it’s not one you happen to know and follow. I love baseball, but American Football puts me to sleep. I don’t go around calling it boring (even if it’s a game with a 1 hour play clock that always seems to last 3 and a half hours) because it’s just not my game. If I understood it better, it’d be fun, but I don’t, and I have no pressing desire to.
Actual football is also called boring, in spite of being the world’s most popular sport outside America. I also find it fairly dull because I don’t understand the strategy well enough to see anything more than people booting a ball around for most of the time.
You’re not wrong if you’re bored by baseball. By all means, keep being bored by baseball. You have no obligation whatsoever to put in the time and effort needed to enjoy it. Just understand that whatever sport, if any, that you do like is just as boring to an observer who didn’t grow up with it.
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For example, see the 2015 Kansas City Royals, who should have lost in the playoffs more times than I can count before a combination of amazing relief pitching, decent batting, and generally poor relief pitching on the other team allowed them to stage comeback after comeback.
… 2014 and 2015 might have been big years for me. My heart still hasn’t properly recovered.
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Making fun of the crowd? They were making fun of a handful of young women.
And while they did so, they said almost not one word about the game. No play by play, no color, no reminders of what might be at stake with this at-bat. I think selfie culture is silly, too, but I thought they were jerks.
I love baseball, but I also think it’s pretty darn boring.
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we’re not going to debate this, but I think you meant:
Baseball, gridiron, basketball, NHL, NASCAR, golf, tennis, …
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Anything that resulted in the destruction of disco records can’t be all bad.
Back on the main topic, baseball used to be a lot less boring when games were 100-120 minutes rather than three plus hours.
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Ah, I didn’t realize that an in-stadium announcement prompted them to take the selfies…
Yeah, that’s dickish then.
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Yep. And my Giants beat your Royals in that Game 7 of the World Series by basically having one single really good player and nothing else.
How the Giants won that year, I have NO idea. But I’ll take it! I was happy the Royals came back the next year to win.
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Mad-Bum carried the whole team that year and it was awesome.
I actually watch a lot of Giants games on MLB.tv. I’m a big fan of Krukow and Kuiper. I think they are the best announcers working in baseball.
When Vin Scully was still calling Dodgers games, I watched a lot of those.
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Fencing? That’s pretty much nothing but an interaction somewhat akin to that between pitcher and batter; except with greater symmetry and movement between the offensive and defensive.
Plus, it leaves the parts of the sport that aren’t that on the cutting room floor; which improves the SNR enormously.
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This is one of the things Football (both kinds) really have going for them over hockey (which I otherwise love). It can be difficult to follow the puck if you’re not familiar with how players move with the puck and in response to the puck carrier.
Both kinds?
In the UK there are also the public school ball games and there are a few places that still have annual games of mob football.
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By both kinds I was referring to the games commonly referred to in the US as Football and Soccer but was attempting to hedge my bets by allowing for the more common worldwide sport known under the name Football aka Soccer or as you have linked it Association football. I did this because the internet likes to be pedantic about it. Congratulations on being even more pedantic however.
Nah. Well, ok yeah, the internet does like to be pedantic, but that’s not what’s going on here.
Here the internet is just reminding you that this is NOT a map of the world:
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So by trying to be inclusive of the two sports I commonly see referred to as Football. But not also mentioning the several additional or adjunct sports that have football in the title or are in someway familiar or similar to the two sports I was initially referring to. I am being deliberately and offensively dismissive of those additional sports and their respective countries of origin with my US-centric thinking.
Is that the narrative that’s being pushed here?
