# If the earth was a baseball. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 9, 2007, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215 "2007-03-09T04:03:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/41 "2007-03-09T20:38:55Z")
Yikes. Let’s hope God decides to bunt. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/42 "2007-03-09T21:04:32Z")
[QUOTE=Aioua] Could God create and then take steroids so powerful that He could then lift the rock that He created that was so large that even He couldn’t lift it? What? [/QUOTE] my brain just melted ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/43 "2007-03-09T23:06:58Z")
I’ve heard of worse. I read of one planet off in the seventh dimension that got used as a ball in a game of intergalactic bar billiards. Got potted straight into a black hole. Killed ten billion people. Only scored thirty points too. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/44 "2007-03-10T16:33:34Z")
[QUOTE=Noone Special] While we’re on completely irrelevant Baseball hijacks… _No, no, **NO!!!** _ **Who** ’s on **First!!** [/QUOTE] All together now: THIRD BASE! But seriously, the OP pitched an interesting question if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/45 "2007-03-11T08:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] There’s also: Jesus saves, but Gretzky scores on the rebound. [/QUOTE] The first time I heard this one it was Esposito. Shows how old I am. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/46 "2007-03-11T08:33:31Z")
[QUOTE=Meeko] All together now: THIRD BASE! [/QUOTE] What this has to do with anything, I don’t know… ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/47 "2007-03-11T08:34:32Z")
So, I think it’s obvious that, as far as cosmic sports go, baseball is impossible. But that leaves so many other options! What about, let’s say, bowling? Would the earth not make a suitable bowling ball? Well, people posted earlier that the earth is relatively analogous to a giant raindrop, so… perhaps a water balloon fight? Geez, sorry for rambling like a drunken idiot \>\_\< ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215/48 "2007-03-11T12:13:03Z")
Watch out everyone, he’s getting in some [practice…](http://www.alienlovespredator.com/index.php?id=4) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-the-earth-was-a-baseball/395215.md?page=2)