Even better - you can make a “live” broadcast of the game without the reporter being present at the stadium! And if necessary, without any knowledge about what is actually going on!
Good pitching was basically the Royals Achilles heel in 2014 and 2015. Our hitters were good enough that we could usually rack up the runs when facing relief pitching (which is why the Royals had so many late-game comebacks). Their starting pitchers weren’t that good, so normally they were behind for the early innings and had to make it up later. Against a starting pitcher who can keep up quality pitching the entire game, they never stood a chance. That’s almost how they lost game 5 of the series in 2015 as well, but Matt Harvey couldn’t quite hold on the entire game.
The fact that the Royals got to game 7 of the World Series after only getting into the playoffs via a close wildcard game as more than I could have ever hoped for in 2014, and a win in 2015 was even more, so I feel like a good time was had by all, except maybe for Mets fans. (Nothing against the Mets though, they fought with honor.)
Of the six football codes i mentioned, three are popular enough to have a competitive international world cup and the only reason American Football doesn’t is because it’s marketing is very poor outside the US. I remember when Border Television (UK commercial televison covering Cumbria, Northumbria, the south of Scotland and the Isle of Man) were reporting on the Scottish Claymores American Football games as well as the Rugby Union, Rugby League and Association Football games.
Can you now understand why talking about both kinds of football feels odd to me?
As for baseball, it very nearly worked in the UK, but the financial effects of two world wars meant that people focused on the more traditional UK sports. Derby County FC’s old stadium was called the Baseball Ground for a reason.
Oh, it’s not that I don’t understand where you’re coming from on this. It’s that it’s been a long running trend that if someone from the US didn’t pay due diligence to recognizing the existence of Football(Soccer) when they mention the word Football, they’d invariably get jumped on by international Football(Soccer) fans for their insensitivity to the existence of said sport. So, in trying to be a good sport about it. I now try to acknowledge Football(Soccer) when discussing Football. only to today have it blow up in my face in a completely unsubtle reminder that there’s at least a half dozen related sports. It’s a bit infuriating.
I have some experience of the cricket equivalent of that.
If you try to concentrate and play deliberately, it’s almost impossible. But if you mentally step back and let your muscle memory do most of the work, you can actually play quite well.
I also once had the opportunity to stand in the middle of the SCG while tripping hard. It’s huge from out there.
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There is also:
and I suppose:
gotta catch 'em all…! 
Schoolboy humour at its best. I defy anyone to listen to the first one - even starting after the infamous ‘leg over’ comment - and not simply get infected by the laughter from that point on.
Can’t remember the name of that movie, but a gang in baseball uniforms? Whoever thought of that were a bunch of dumbasses.
The Warriors and you are entitled to your very wrong opinion on a modern retelling of a Greek classic.
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^ What he said.
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(Cue the Big Lebowski “well, that’s just, like, your opinion man” gif.)
Sure, I get it, everybody here is expressing their opinions on baseball, no accounting for taste, etc. In any sport or pastime or hobby it’s the same. I know people who are really into knitting, it’s not for me but I can appreciate why they like it. Even soccer I can respect as a serious athletic event even though I dislike watching it.
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Common ground ftw.
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I loved playing soccer as a kid (2 a days in high school notwithstanding) but I can only bring myself to watch the more compelling World Cup matches.
Still grateful for the high baseline of fitness I earned from kicking the ball around for 12 years, but baseball was and always will be my true sport love. I still regret that I quit in HS, even though the coaches and the atmosphere around the team were miserable. To this day I still play pick up games regularly (if you live in Portland, every Saturday at Pier Park, game starts at noon!)
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True, you can see the pitcher/batter battle better. But as one who has played many games, I like to see things the camera doesn’t show us. I like to see what the players are doing when not in the action. I like to watch the base coaches give signs. I like to see if the coaches are waving the runners around, or did he run through the stop sign. I like to yell at the opposing outfielders, knowing they can hear me but pretend not to. I once advised Pete Rose to strike out; he didn’t, but he looked right at me first before he doubled.
I can see how baseball might be boring to someone who doesn’t know what’s going on between pitches. That time makes for some good stories.
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Not a man known for giving people what they want.
And he needs to be in the damn HoF already.
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I can’t help but be reminded in these “my preferred sportsball rulezzzz!!! your preferred sportsball druuulz! / all sportsball is duuuuumb!” arguments, that Ayn Rand would apparently get particularly angry if anyone denied that tap dancing (of all things) was objectively (of course!) the highest form of dance and that all others were objectively inferior. Seems about as sensible.
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Actually I thought it was kind of genius-- your gang colors are also a reason to carry around a prime weapon: baseball bats. And you can just tell the cops “hey man, we’re just on our way to practice.”
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Absolutely.
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Yeah, but have you ever seen the whole list of gangs in The Warriors? It’s nuts.
I’ll always love the Furies. Their scenes are easily my favorites.
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