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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Other Sports (Tiger's Back) => Topic started by: bones129 on June 28, 2014, 12:16:03 AM
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ITT, I invite all of you to post your reasons why you love baseball. The reasons should have nothing to do with favorite teams, players, etc...just why you love this great game of baseball.
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Baseball is like a three hour long chess match. It's beautiful. A true thinking man's game. Most people's critique is that the game is too slow, but to me the pace is what makes the action all the more exciting. There's a tension that exists in the battle between pitcher and hitter. When the tension is broken by a ball in play, it really gets the blood pumping. Also, there isn't a sport with better smells. Freshly cut grass, a brand new baseball, the smell of the leather on a choice baseball glove. Also, the uniforms are classy as eff.
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Baseball is the most unique of any major team sport, and it isn't close. Basketball, football, hockey, soccer, rugby, polo, water polo, etc. all have the same primary goal of the offense penetrating the opponent's defense and getting an item of value (puck, ball, whatever) into a goal. Baseball is completely opposite.
Another thing is that though a baseball player is perhaps more dependent on his teammates for team success, the actual play of the game is more individual than any other sport.
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Pitcher:
You against the other team, literally on an island with no help. You are the sole reason the batter is in the box and he is 100% focused on you, so is the crowd, so are your teammates, so is the homeplate umpire, also the other team. No other sport has this kind of pressure/intensity on a single person.
Yeah go ahead and say football and the QB. Welp direct snap to the RB, does and can happen. Baseball the pitcher is the primary person, without him, there would be no game because nobody would deliver the ball.
Does he like the pressure, of course he does, he is a gamer. He understands this game is on him, he is the one that gets a record, Wins and Loses. Does he care, no, he goes out there everyday and competes his rough ridin' heart out.
So the SS makes a game losing error, who gets the L, the pitcher, there is not a more individualistic team sport than baseball.
If you don't understand/appreciate it, I feel sorry for you, because this is the greatest sport in the world.
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baseball sucks. it's the worst sport that people get paid to play.
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baseball sucks. it's the worst sport that people get paid to play.
just because you were the worst person to ever play the sport, like ever, doesn't mean you have to hate on it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SB16il97yw (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SB16il97yw)
"The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball." Is there any sports movie that makes you want to call your dad more than FoD?
Also, baseball has no time limit. Could theoretically go on forever.
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Baseball has had the best movies made about it.
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Played in the summer
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really really cheap tickets
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makes me lol so hard everytime i see a shot of the coaches wearing the same uniform as the players :lol:
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you can skip the first 7 innings because they generally don't matter, makes the 9 hour game a lot shorter
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there's like 160 games, so each individual game doesn't matter one bit!
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lots of white guys
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lots of white guys
well that's a weird reason to love something
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naps! naps are great and baseball is like the best sport ever to nap to, just ask metalheads dad. also synergistic with the point about skipping most of the game and individual games not mattering!
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makes me lol so hard everytime i see a shot of the coaches wearing the same uniform as the players :lol:
this one is great
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lots of white guys
well that's a weird reason to love something
i just figured that's why everyone else likes baseball so much
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makes me lol so hard everytime i see a shot of the coaches wearing the same uniform as the players :lol:
:lol: Just saw a great shot of some fatass Angels coach in full uni. :lol:
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Baseball caps are the best team apparel out there.
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naps! naps are great and baseball is like the best sport ever to nap to, just ask metalheads dad. also synergistic with the point about skipping most of the game and individual games not mattering!
golf is mhDad's go to nap sport. baseball is mhGrandpa's go to nap sport, but mhDad likes baseball too.
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Nothing is better for commutes or long drives than listening to a baseball game on the radio.
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Very few games go to the ninth inning without the losing team having a good chance to win. Basketball and football games are often over with 5+ minutes left. Nope, not baseball.
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no time limit and the fact that game strategy is basically the same regardless of score and inning make it great. you can't start just fouling the crap out of the other team if you're down five late in the game and similar type things.
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it's two games in one!
like for half the time you are in the field with your team and you're all wearing gloves trying to catch the ball and then the other half of the time you are in the dugout eating sunflower seeds and hot footing people while occasionally grabbing a bat to mash the ball with. it's like a real life sporting bogo.
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Very few games go to the ninth inning without the losing team having a good chance to win. Basketball and football games are often over with 5+ minutes left. Nope, not baseball.
would be an interesting stat. I'd figure the percentage chance of winning a game, when trailing going into the ninth, is quite low.
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pick your own equipment. small brown glove? sure. crazy big blue glove? why not! hey how big and heavy is your bat and what color is it and who makes it and what kind of wood is it made out of because i don't have a clue!
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it's played outdoors where sports should be played. indoor sports like basketball and volleyball? good grief. grow up.
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There isn't a better feeling in sports than smacking a ball over the outfielder's head and diving head first into third for a triple.
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Backyard Baseball 2003 was a great game
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Most summer nights if I didn't have practice or a game, I played catch with my Dad in the backyard. Mom would do the dishes and let us know when it was time for dessert.
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Chewing way too much
bubble-gum Big League Chew and pretending you're Lenny Dykstra.
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Even when you're MLB team is bad, they still win pretty often. Like, even when the Royals stink they still win 2 or 3 a week.
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Most summer nights if I didn't have practice or a game, I played catch with my Dad in the backyard. Mom would do the dishes and let us know when it was time for dessert.
sounds like the 60's were great!
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Along the same lines as managers wearing uniforms, the managers wear cleats! Lol
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Bringing your glove to the game.
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I know this is luked but there really is no better sports feeling (in a general way) than hitting a ball and watching it soar.
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Metal cleats.
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Getting dirty.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2zQf6bxsZo
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Baseball would be great if they had an offensive team and a defensive team. Basically 9 DH's and 9 fielders who never bat.
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Baseball would be great if they had an offensive team and a defensive team. Basically 9 DH's and 9 fielders who never bat.
I want to puke.
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that would be pretty sweet, but who in their right mind would ever want to be a defense-only player?
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That idea is like spitting on the declaration of independence
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that would be pretty sweet, but who in their right mind would ever want to be a defense-only player?
Players who can't hit. Like 90% of all second basemen.
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That idea is like spitting on the declaration of independence
how is it any different than pitchers not batting in the AL?
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That idea is like spitting on the declaration of independence
how is it any different than pitchers not batting in the AL?
Pitchers were never everyday players to begin with
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That idea is like spitting on the declaration of independence
how is it any different than pitchers not batting in the AL?
Pitchers were never everyday players to begin with
but they only play defense when they do play
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I don't like the idea ok mocat. Baseball players stand around enough as it is.
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I don't know why you wouldn't want the best product available on the field. If a guy is good enough to play both ways, then I guess you could do that. Just think how much more exciting baseball would be without catchers batting. Or without a crappy power hitter in RF dropping routine fly balls.
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I don't know why you wouldn't want the best product available on the field. If a guy is good enough to play both ways, then I guess you could do that. Just think how much more exciting baseball would be without catchers batting. Or without a crappy power hitter in RF dropping routine fly balls.
Maybe you should start a "Ways to improve baseball thread"
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I don't know why you wouldn't want the best product available on the field. If a guy is good enough to play both ways, then I guess you could do that. Just think how much more exciting baseball would be without catchers batting. Or without a crappy power hitter in RF dropping routine fly balls.
Maybe you should start a "Ways to improve baseball thread"
Probably not a need for a separate thread. I kind of solved all it's problems right here.
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Its usually hot out sothere are a loto of girls in shorty short shorts and tank tops :excited:
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I don't know why you wouldn't want the best product available on the field. If a guy is good enough to play both ways, then I guess you could do that. Just think how much more exciting baseball would be without catchers batting. Or without a crappy power hitter in RF dropping routine fly balls.
Maybe you should start a "Ways to improve baseball thread"
Probably not a need for a separate thread. I kind of solved all it's problems right here.
actually you ruined it
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I guess I just don't believe that it'd be much different. I would guarantee that no good hitter in the entire world has been denied a spot on a roster because his defense wasn't good enough.
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I don't know if this is the right thread or not, but has anybody noticed how rough ridin' pitiful the Rangers are!?!!?
3-18 over the last 21 and approaching ku football bad.
:Wha:
Regardless, we are gonna go out to the Ballpark in Arlington tonight and watch em get shelled by the Angels.
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cuz this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpNGvIXnG4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmpNGvIXnG4)
and this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBB9kItCsaI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBB9kItCsaI)
and this,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn7C6jgl0RI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn7C6jgl0RI)
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If they stopped playing baseball tomorrow, nobody would miss it
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If they stopped playing baseball tomorrow, nobody would miss it
OK_Cat hating something 99% of the time reinforces my love for it.
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If they stopped playing baseball tomorrow, nobody would miss it
OK_Cat hating something 99% of the time reinforces my love for it.
Agreed, but even if OK_Cat had no opinion, I'd still love baseball. As Hud says, "It's a beautiful thing."
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OK_Cat and Batt BcKee, smh.
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http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v34844587/the-hall-of-fame-is-where-the-past-comes-to-life (http://m.mlb.com/video/topic/6479266/v34844587/the-hall-of-fame-is-where-the-past-comes-to-life)
:love:
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pretty meh on baseball. i love the royals and that's about it.