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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.
Baseball let’s you drink beer and insult the rivals.
That was the main draw for playing LoL.
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.
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.
T20 and ODI cricket is fine, but Test cricket, holy shit that is something else in terms of boredom.
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
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.
I could see the ball and more skill in soccer than hockey, where most of the time, I can't see the puck
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
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.
I mean football/soccer is an actual global sport, with a set flow and structure that is appealing to most people. 2 45 minute halves, of which the ball is in play for around 30 minutes in each half. Stoppage time added to the end of each half for long stops in play. This makes it impossible to show adverts while the game is playing, unlike in American sports. A points structure (3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss) that encourages teams to go for winning the game in league and group games. In knockout games, two extra time halves of 15 minutes each are added in the event of a draw, and penalty shootouts if the game is still level after extra time.
Most Americans don't like soccer, because it's a low scoring game due to the offside rule and size of the goal and pitch. However, this places a ton more value on individual goals, and low scoring, and even no goal games can be very fun to watch. A recent example is the second leg of Atletico Madrid vs Manchester City, a very entertaining 0-0 draw, which was entertaining because of what was at stake.
This makes it impossible to show adverts while the game is playing, unlike in American sports.
Clearly you've never heard of Lexus Stoppage Time. In the States they still find ways to sneak ads in—they'll also usually have an ad bar next to the score and time.
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Why is the USA like this...
Also pls don't come to Europe and African football, idc if we're broke, if I have to have Toyota Hilux stoppage time I'm going to scream
Lmao, you should watch Mexican football, the amount of commercial make america look like amateur.
South African football was heading down that road, but actually got so broke during COVID 19 that sponsors pulled out. Stuff went from the ABSA Premiership, to just the premiership lol.
The state of football is not good right now, hope it will improve though.
It's hard for the sport to commercially survive outside Europe, since most of the good players concentrate there, unfortunately. Wish it like back in the day, where it more diverse and Brazilian club dominate
They do that. Sometimes the score box becomes a giant ad and the score/time are hidden until the ad finishes.
I don't think anyone has licensed stoppage time on broadcasts of MLS, yet. Just things like the "Budhauser Man of the Match" or the "Autolube Replay"
a goal is like a touchdown, a homerun and a three pointer all at once
-R
Bro why are you signing your Tweets, your name is already right there at the top of it.
Is this why MSM never actually said what Ralph Nader’s policies were?
He's one of the main reasons cars have seatbelts now. He has a serious record in consumer safety type stuff, helped create OSHA (government workplace safety agency). He's probably saved a lot of lives through his continual advocacy for safety standards. Middle of the road political record otherwise. He's pretty lib, but one of the better ones. He ran for president a lot.
He was the first politician I voted for.
And sometimes, even he just wants to grill and watch the Show.
Shortest answer was he was the proto-Bernie, except he ran 3rd party. Libs melted down at him when W stole the 2000 election and he became a nation-wide pariah.
I don't know if he ever identified publically as socialist but he was definitely a radlib of the best steak with stronger praxis than Bernie ever had.
(That's actually the joke about posting this tweet FWIW, like he's not really known as a sports guy he is usual pretty serious and political so him posting about baseball teams with the same seriousness is funny because it's out of character)
Actually sweaty he is a consumer advocate and this is him doing what the NYT ombudsman is too afraid to do.
sometimes blue checks use sigs like this to indicate a tweet they wrote personally rather than one done by the media intern
Ugh I fucking hate stupid, sexy Real Madrid with their Franco propped history and tendency to pull wins out of their asses on and off the field.
Chad Real Madrid vs Virgin New Yankees who can't even get on the frontpage of their hometown's newspaper, the New York Crimes. SMH. SHUT UP RM, UR TOTALLY NOT HOT I NEVER WANTED TO FUCK U IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Could it be that the suburban upper-middle class who used to subscribe to the NYT has been hollowed out and replaced with PMC expats who would rather follow the international game than America's favorite pastime?
