You probably wish that Pokemon Trading Card tournaments were televised.
+1
You were always chosen last, right?
Waiting for spring, as Sandy Koufax said.
I’d rank television poker below golf and bass fishing. But I’ll cop to a visceral loathing of speedball, numbers-driven, jargonized “poker” as a good part of the reason. It’s to poker what softball and golf were to those games before the Yuppie/Boomer/technosport crowd found them.
That’s my point. I was honestly trying, but I failed at watching it. It’s literally too boring for me to watch.
If you presented me with a serious offer of $1,000,000 to watch a baseball game the whole way through and actually pay attention to the game, I don’t know if I could do it. Meaning, at some random time you’d pull the plug on the TV and ask me what inning it is and how many people are on base and who’s at bat. I would have no idea. Because I’d be thinking about something else.
I quite honestly don’t have the capacity to watch baseball, given how boring it is.
Football, on the other hand, doesn’t let you step out of the room while the game is in play. Too much can happen. I always know what down it is, how many yards to go and I always have an opinion about what play should be next.
I was going to say exactly this, but decided against it.
I was also going to say exactly this, but you beat me to it.
I’ve never played it, but I expect that, no matter how much fun it might be to play, I’d find it as boring to watch as any other sport. That is to say, I’d find it as boring as it’s possible to find anything, and bereft of even the marginal practical utility of the proverbial dried paint.
To clarify: * Playing* sport = Great, if that’s your thing. Watching total strangers play sport = boring as shit (unless you’ve got money on it). Getting all worked up over which set of strangers wins, even though the result has no discernible impact on your life whatsoever = Impossibly lame. Like ‘learning Klingon’ lame. Seriously.
Love the game myself, but have to admit I sometimes find myself in agreement with Homer Simpson, when he goes to a baseball game after having quit drinking & says something like “I never realized how boring this game is!” 
You folks aren’t even skimming the surface!
Let’s see … synchronized swimming, archery, horse dancing (I think they call it dressage), weight lifting, …
And, oh yeah, curling. Yup, curling’s the one!
I came in here to say that American football is the most boring sport ever. Holy everloving fuck, they do a little bit of stuff for five seconds (most of it avoiding the ball), and then stand around for 10 minutes.
And, in closing,
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”
― Leo Durocher
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The clinching game of the 1918 World Series was a brisk 1:46, shorter than a movie.
Last night’s game was 3:15, twenty minutes longer than The Godfather.
Have you ever watched the end of a close basketball game? I guess not.
I only watch the end of basketball games. I’m pretty close to only watching the end of NBA finals games.
Forgot your Ritalin again, didja?
Yeah watching grown men throw themselves to the ground pretending to be hurt and crying like little girls for 3 minutes is so much fun to watch. Oh, wait. No it’s not.
I deserve that.
Actually, I don’t. Nobody deserves having to watch the end of a close basketball game.
This bears repeating.
There’s no crying in baseball!
You misspelled “spectator sports in general.”
(also, “misspelled.”)