There are a few things about baseball that make me want to watch soccer...
They either wear two pairs of socks or one pair with a fake stirrup down the side. I'm thinking that's not going to help them hit a baseball.
The manager wears a game uniform as though he might get out there at any moment to pinch hit.
When the manager disagrees with a call, he doesn't go out there and argue like a football coach - he gets 2 inches from the umpires face and argues with him while moving his head around at, what must be, a ridiculous rate from that close a range. It's like he's saying, "If I wasn't so mad at you right now, I'd kiss you right in the face!" He then kicks dirt over the plate or picks up a base and throws it. Seriously with that?
The infield fly rule is just silly.
I keep hearing that pitching is watered down right now, and that's just wrong.
It's hard to argue that anything is a sport if you wear long pants, eat and chew tobacco while playing, and you stand around for hours.
The Pirates might be the worst team of all time (it hurts to write that - it feels like we've been the Cincinnati Bengals of football for the past 10 years)
I prefer soccer because it KEEPS MOVING. Baseball and football are constantly stopping which gives the commentators too much time to blab on about nothing. The World Cup has ruined me.
ReplyDeleteYou ever end up seeing 'The Aristocrats'?
ReplyDeleteI did. Oh my.
the Pirates have been bad for longer than 10 years my friend.
ReplyDelete10 years, 14 years...who's counting?
ReplyDeleteI contend that baseball is not a sport but rather a past-time. It is a tradition. It looks virtually the same now as it did when I was a kid, which was virtually the same as it looked when my Dad was a kid, which was virtually the same as it looked when his Dad was a kid, which was....I'm fine with that. I love it, but I don't scream at the TV when baseball is on. Football, on the other hand (I mean real football, the kind where they are legally allowed to use their freakin foot) is quite another thing. I don't think I have ever yelled as many disparaging remarks at the TV as I have in the last couple weeks watching the World Cup.
ReplyDeleteAmerican Rugby (we call it football for some reason) is less like a sport and more like a full contact Crimean War battle re-enactment without the cavalry. I'm alright with that too. I still love to watch football.
I believe sports have saved the world from self-annihilation. There would certainly be no EU without "soccer". Those people hate each other but they get to vent that through sports and for the most part nobody dies. The United States would certainly be a confederacy of some sort if not for sports. Look at how we resolved our conflicts in the 19th century before the advent of organized sports. Civil War; 1861 - 1865. First professional sport team organized in Cincinnati, Ohio; 1869.
Yet, what part of the world is still embroiled in constant conflict and bloodshed? The part of the world that doesn't distract itself with sports. What if once a year Israel and Palestine played a "football" game. They have teams I'm sure. The crowd might be rough the first couple years but certainly no rougher than everyday life is now in the Gaza strip. It might be a little hard to recruit a suicide bomber if that 18 year old kid is really into his local team "The Palestine Prophets". He's too distracted and disinterested. His unbridled adolescent energy is being dumped and directed into sports.
hmm? I think I'm done. The coffee is wearing off. Who needs spell check or proof-reading?
Dan,
ReplyDeleteI will not confirm, nor deny that I watched about half of the Aristocrats...and that was plenty.
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The Aristocrats was the funniest movie I've seen in a year. As my brother said, there's nothing less funny than the dissection of a joke, but that movie does it gleefully. Take that, good taste! Aren't the Cincinnati Bengals the Cincinnati Bengals of football? Or is that the Browns?
ReplyDeleteI've never seen that movie "The Aristocats" but I did rent it for my 8 year old niece when I was babysitting. Isn't it a couple cartoon cats in love or something? Anyway, I sat her down in front of the TV, turned on the VCR and went about doing some yardwork for a couple hours. I think she liked it. She didn't say anything about it being particularly funny. Ever since then she cusses like a Portugese sailor though.
ReplyDeleteAll the references to Gallagher gave the film its beauty.
ReplyDeleteYou make me laugh
ReplyDeleteAnyone who compares baseball to soccer is silly. Sounds like the same kind of guy who also doesn't like "Clue."
ReplyDeleteI mean, seriously, every time a soccer player is breathed on, he falls down and cries out as if he is in the worst pain imaginable. And then he gets up two seconds later (after the ref gives the other team a yellow card), and runs back into the game. Lame.
That's if you're an Italian soccer player. It's sort of like the Opera and sport rolled into one.
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