Baseball is outdated and so completely boring that I can’t believe that it’s still even a thing.
I can see maybe a hundred years ago baseball making sense. There was nothing else to do. No TV. No internet. Less premarital sex. I can imagine living in that time and finding nothing better to do than watch some people hit a ball with a stick in this unbelievably slow paced game. But not today!
I was watching the game last night for as long as I could make it before being overwhelmed with boredom. I only had it on in the first place because I wanted to see the Drop Kick Murphy’s open the game.
I was actually watching with the Red Sox scored those first three runs. I totally missed it. See, like watching paint dry, baseball is so boring that I can’t actually maintain focus on what’s going on for any length of time. Being human, I eventually tune out and start daydreaming or get distracted. It would require intense focus to actually continue to pay attention to what’s occurring on the TV screen for more than a few minutes. It’s like trying to watch a clock as the seconds tick by. You can only last so long.
It was a couple minutes after the runs came in that I noticed the updated score meant I had missed something.
What is the appeal of this sport? Is it the spitting? If you have some sort of sexual fetish about men spitting then this would be the game for you! It’s lots of close up shots of men chewing and spitting. If that’s your thing then baseball would be to you like the zoo to a furry.
Also, when did they start wearing baggy pants?
Baseball is so mind numbing, boring and slow paced that it’s useless as a spectator sport. I guess the only thing it’s got going for it is that it’s not soccer.
Well, I hate to sound like a soccer fan, but baseball is a lot more interesting when you understand the game. I went to a MLB game with my brother, who despite playing in Little League and knowing the basics, didn’t understand the different dynamics of a 0-2 count vs. a 2-0 count for example. I explained to him how every pitch changed the situation, the behavior of the hitter, runners, and fielders. If you’re just watching to see if a guy gets a hit or not, there is a lot of time with “nothing happening.” If, however, you watch the batter work the count, the catcher call the game, the pitcher struggle to find the zone, it gets pretty interesting. However, I’ve heard similar arguments about soccer and I don’t get it. It’s **so **boring.
Baseball continues to be propped up by the Obama administration. As soon as the government stops subsidizing it, the better sports (like Ultimate Fighting, and Kick Boxing[sup]1[/sup]) will rise to the top.
[sup]1[/sup]It’s boxing, but there’s kicking too.
Yes, as long as soccer exists in its current form, baseball can never take the title of most boring. And what about bass fishing? Does that count as a sport? It’s no soccer, but it’s duller than baseball. And, ooh, cricket, lawn bowling, NASCAR … Baseball might not even be in the top ten.
1- There is no clock. A team has all the time in the world to stage a comeback, as long as it’s before their 27th out.
2- The team in the lead doesn’t need to stop playing offense. If football, you play tentative when you have the lead as you don’t want to lose the ball. In basketball, you start milking the clock. No such worries in baseball.
3- The team behind can play whatever defense it wants. No need to foul someone just to stop the clock. No desperate attempts to strip the ball from your opponent.
4- There is no halftime and no television timeouts. No half hour period where you’re just waiting for more action. Instead, you get breaks just long enough to take a leak every 5 minutes or so.
5- Everybody (except the pitcher and the DH) has to have offensive and defensive skills.
It’s only boring if you don’t take the time to savor it.
Playoff baseball sucks because a game that’s normally 2.5 hours is now 3.5 hours. Timed games, for all their faults, don’t suddenly slow to a crawl because the game is important. I can’t savor a batter stepping out of the box for the 5th time this at bat, or the 3rd mound visit in the last 3 innings, without a pitching change.
Though, the fact that the style of play changes very little WRT the strategic situation is a bonus. Nobody is playing keep away or rush rush rush depending on the score. Though… a good 2 minute drill in Football is an exciting way to end the half/game.
Oh, horseshit. The last five minutes of clock in football or basketball can take an hour of screwing around with time-outs, commercials, etc.
I’d wager that the start to finish air time of most timed games is twice the clock length. “Important” ones are longer. Much longer. How long have the last ten Superbowls® been, kickoff to last buzzer?
If nothing else you need time in baseball to recalculate all of the stats it’s perfectly paced to both drink beer and do math between pitches. Baseball is my favorite sport.
