Baseball is by far the boringest sport in existence. If you tried to invent baseball today, it'd be impossible to convince anyone to play it.
Baseball is also a good metaphor for boomer mentality-- stubbornly refusing to change with the times by speeding up the game, shortening the season, etc. Then when attendance / viewership drops year after year, stratch their heads and bemoan why no one wants to play the boringest sport in the world anymore
Case in point: The greatest, once-in-a-lifetime event that makes any player that can pull it off go down in baseball history is the shutout. The shutout is basically an entire game where absolutely nothing happens, not a single batter for the other team ever gets a hit.
(Also, because shutouts aren't a team effort. The pitcher, and to a lesser extent, the catcher, does everything.)
You're thinking of a perfect game, not a shut out. They absolutely are a team effort - there have been several examples of perfect games that were saved due to great plays by the defense, or lost due to bad defense. This is fully outside of the pitchers control.
Ah yes, cricket, the grandaddy of sitting in a stadium for 4+ hours, drunk af, staring at the sun because the athletes on the pitch are literally just talking to each other.
Bad take. :baseball-crank: and soccer are both entertaining sports in their own rights, without many of the more problematic aspects of American football.
American football is clearly the most cursed sport because of the senseless violence of it but ngl it's definitely the most interesting strategically imo
Midwit take. Baseball has a ton of tense moments every game and combines 1 on 1 drama like you get in tennis with the need for effective teamwork. Soccer is basically just a bunch of people kicking a ball around for a while with it every now and then going into a net. Strictly shittier version of hockey.
Baseball is by far the boringest sport in existence. If you tried to invent baseball today, it'd be impossible to convince anyone to play it.
Baseball is also a good metaphor for boomer mentality-- stubbornly refusing to change with the times by speeding up the game, shortening the season, etc. Then when attendance / viewership drops year after year, stratch their heads and bemoan why no one wants to play the boringest sport in the world anymore
Case in point: The greatest, once-in-a-lifetime event that makes any player that can pull it off go down in baseball history is the shutout. The shutout is basically an entire game where absolutely nothing happens, not a single batter for the other team ever gets a hit.
(Also, because shutouts aren't a team effort. The pitcher, and to a lesser extent, the catcher, does everything.)
You're thinking of a perfect game, not a shut out. They absolutely are a team effort - there have been several examples of perfect games that were saved due to great plays by the defense, or lost due to bad defense. This is fully outside of the pitchers control.
You don't know what you're talking about
I would go as far as to say every no hitter/perfect game has an iconic defensive play to save it.
it's tough to pick between baseball and golf
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That was the main draw for playing LoL.
No, that's drink beer and insult your teammates.
Really it's insulting everyone but yourself.
playing LoL is insulting yourself
Yeah, I pretty much avoid all competitive online games nowadays.
At least with golf you get to walk through a pretty park
Baseball takes up far less space and you can do the wave and drink at stadiums. Golf is only cool if there's no golf course.
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Ah yes, cricket, the grandaddy of sitting in a stadium for 4+ hours, drunk af, staring at the sun because the athletes on the pitch are literally just talking to each other.
Does the New York Times suburban print edition carry cricket scores?
Oh true I forgot about cricket
T20 and ODI cricket is fine, but Test cricket, holy shit that is something else in terms of boredom.
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excuse me what the fuck did you just say
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I know :doomer:
I used to play cricket, left hand spin bowler. I stopped in high school when the matches became too long and boring
test cricket is mankind's highest achievement
Bad take. :baseball-crank: and soccer are both entertaining sports in their own rights, without many of the more problematic aspects of American football.
American football is clearly the most cursed sport because of the senseless violence of it but ngl it's definitely the most interesting strategically imo
Yeah I respect the strategy element just it's ultimately a sport we should stop playing.
Midwit take. Baseball has a ton of tense moments every game and combines 1 on 1 drama like you get in tennis with the need for effective teamwork. Soccer is basically just a bunch of people kicking a ball around for a while with it every now and then going into a net. Strictly shittier version of hockey.
yes but also there's NOTHING HAPPENING for like 90% of the fucking time
play the shit and be done with it
There's nothing happening in soccer either. People running around and passing the ball does not constitute "something", sorry
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Sure, but sometimes the ball goes into the net like this or this or even this
also a boring soccer game with the crowd noise and the commentary is god tier asmr, super comfy.
I could see the ball and more skill in soccer than hockey, where most of the time, I can't see the puck
Hockey is such a fun sport. :lets-fucking-go: