Why is baseball the best sport on the planet? Discuss. (21 Viewers)

[Mike mac]

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[Colquhoun]

I choose baseball over all other sports.
While I’ve always been a Yankee fan, I’ve never hated the Red Sox, Mets, or any team for that matter.
I just love the game.

 

[chipinla]

I choose baseball over all other sports.
While I’ve always been a Yankee fan, I’ve never hated the Red Sox, Mets, or any team for that matter.
I just love the game.

Fun fact about the Mets I learned a few years ago. Their colors are blue and orange to symbolize the return of baseball to NY after the Dodgers and Giants left NY.

 

[jr8719]

On a personal level, baseball is the most bizarre sport I've ever known, in that it's by far the most enjoyable sport to watch live in a stadium — but by far the most dull to watch on TV (so much so that I wouldn't even bother watching if it was on).

As a live sporting event, for me, the atmosphere, tradition, and relaxed nature of MLB in a beautiful stadium (I've only ever seen the one game at Camden Yards) has only ever been beaten by one event: Wimbledon.

Baseball in Cuba, however, was an altogether different experience; equally enjoyable, until I started talking to a group of American fans in the stands, before I started to feel things being thrown down on me by the locals. Guilty by association, apparently.

 

[EmptyPocs]

For some odd reason I allways loved playing football, but watching baseball more.
Just me I guess.

 

[upNdown]

I just walked down the street - we’ve got a field less than a mile from my house and there’s a college game going on today.
These guys are mostly long and lean. Maybe a few shorter ones, but not a chubby guy among them. FWIW

 

[chipinla]

Just got a Facebook alert from when I went to the Angels/Royals game on Easter in 2012.

 

[Irish]

Baseball is awesome because fun nonsense like this happens. Same game. Same inning. 2 batters apart....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645596663166169092

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645597489540616195

Metsies hitting the shit out of the ball this year......

 

[mburnznj]

Great day for a game.

 

[mburnznj]

What a start, back to back Homers by Volpe and Judge!

 

[Frogzilla]

Super excited to see A’s make the move to Vegas in ‘27!

 

[bergs]

Great night at Chase Field. Return of Tatis (so many Pads fans!), 27 min there, 22 min home, $45 Club Seats, dinner and drinks first 2 innings at Four Peaks Brewing in right, and my Xander + Carroll homer prop and DBacks +1.5 and total over 10.5 are all live.

 

[Frogzilla]

These hit the tables a week ago. Somewhat hard to find but managed to scoop 6 up over two days.

 

[LeLe]

I can think of 7 reasons why Baseball is not the best sport on this planet

10 Most popular sports in 2023
1) Soccer / Football - 4b Fans
2) Cricket - 2.5b Fans
3) Hockey - 2b Fans
4) Tennis - 1b Fans
5) Volleyball - 900m Fans
6) Table Tennis - 875m Fans
7) Basketball - 825m Fans
8) Baseball - 500m Fans
9) Rugby - 475m Fans
10) Golf - 450m Fans

 

[bergs]

I can think of 7 reasons why Baseball is not the best sport on this planet

10 Most popular sports in 2023
1) Soccer / Football - 4b Fans
2) Cricket - 2.5b Fans
3) Hockey - 2b Fans
4) Tennis - 1b Fans
5) Volleyball - 900m Fans
6) Table Tennis - 875m Fans
7) Basketball - 825m Fans
8) Baseball - 500m Fans
9) Rugby - 475m Fans
10) Golf - 450m Fans

Popular doesn’t equal best.

 

[ekricket]

Popular doesn’t equal best.

#idiocracy lol

 

[bergs]

#idiocracy lol

Dice chips are the most popular poker chips on the planet. Not many dice chips touted as “best” here.

 

[AuburnSeth]

Baseball is the best sport, dumbest and most boring game, ever.
On this planet, or any other. It's just next level stupid and boring.

Discuss.

Baseball was created in a time when life was simpler, things moved slower and people were entertained by literally kicking cans down the road and playing jacks down by the corner store.

 

[bergs]

The rules of soccer were formed in 1863. References to cricket go back to the 16th century. Hockey was referenced in a 1773 English book on sports. Tennis was developed in France during the Middle Ages.

Baseball is fresh and new by comparison. There are a lot of challenges with modern baseball but age of the sport isn’t one of them. If anything, going to a game makes some people think about simpler times and the rich history of the game.

 

[Frogzilla]

I can think of 7 reasons why Baseball is not the best sport on this planet

10 Most popular sports in 2023
1) Soccer / Football - 4b Fans
2) Cricket - 2.5b Fans
3) Hockey - 2b Fans
4) Tennis - 1b Fans
5) Volleyball - 900m Fans
6) Table Tennis - 875m Fans
7) Basketball - 825m Fans
8) Baseball - 500m Fans
9) Rugby - 475m Fans
10) Golf - 450m Fans

This list has field hockey at 2 billion fans. I can’t name a field hockey player. If it was that popular there would be million dollar salaries floating around. No way. Field hockey is so unpopular that a bunch of people seeing this list thought it was ice hockey.

 

[bergs]

I can think of 7 reasons why Baseball is not the best sport on this planet

10 Most popular sports in 2023
1) Soccer / Football - 4b Fans, watching grown man throw themselves onto the pitch and writhe around like a fish on a dock suffering a seizure in the hot sun, all in the forlorn hope of picking up a not that exciting penalty kick.

2) Cricket - 2.5b Fans - 27 fans outside the UK and India. Not 27M. 27.

3) Hockey - 2b Fans - not super accessible to everyone to play and enjoy without waking up at 3:30a to grab some precious and obscenely expensive ice time, where your $1000+ of kit will be put to the test for 30 scant minutes before being unceremoniously shooed off for the next squad of bleary eyed, overpaying fanatics with frail ankles.

4) Tennis - 1b Fans - a fantastic surefire way to turn both your ankles and your knees into the consistency of 4 day old cottage cheese while being subject to the capricious whim of a side judge who has authoritarian issues and the eyesight of Mr. Magoo.

5) Volleyball - 900m Fans - this is actually a fun sport but 897m of the fans came to watch players of the opposite sex throw themselves around a gymnasium floor or the sand.

6) Table Tennis - 875m Fans - immma letcha finish but…no, seriously, we don’t need to spend time on this. But hello to the 874,999,997 fans from China.

7) Basketball - 825m Fans - hard to hate on basketball as a global sport with real tangible growth, even if at the highest levels the women are tragically underappreciated and the men just conspire together to form virtual super teams to win championships. Also, the game was better before analytics indicated that the best strategy to win was to run a single play involving a high screen, dribble penetrate, and dish for a 3. Seriously, this is the entire fucking game now.

8) Baseball - 500m Fans - AWESOME

9) Rugby - 475m Fans - the best possible way for people who want to fight and people who want to play soccer to do both at the same time. Plus, it’s hard to overestimate the zeal and pageantry associated with the post-game festivities which are compromised largely of screaming at each other and drinking watered down beer from each other’s footwear.

10) Golf - 450m Fans - A walk, irrevocably spoiled. Also, nobody can hit a 2 iron and everyone who plays has spent $1200 on drivers that can’t fix their swing. I’m not speaking from experience (FUCKING SLICE).

 

[bergs]

This list has field hockey at 2 billion fans. I can’t name a field hockey player. If it was that popular there would be million dollar salaries floating around. No way. Field hockey is so unpopular that a bunch of people seeing this list thought it was ice hockey.

There’s no way this is Field Hockey, is it?

I can’t make fun of field hockey. I don’t even know what the fuck Field Hockey is. Someone explain the game to me like I was a Rottweiler with a chewing problem.

 

[Frogzilla]

There’s no way this is Field Hockey, is it?

I can’t make fun of field hockey. I don’t even know what the fuck Field Hockey is. Someone explain the game to me like I was a Rottweiler with a chewing problem.

Ice hockey with a ball instead of a puck, regular shoes instead of skates, and a grass field instead of ice.

The list is suspect.

 

[liftapint]

There’s no way this is Field Hockey, is it?

I can’t make fun of field hockey. I don’t even know what the fuck Field Hockey is. Someone explain the game to me like I was a Rottweiler with a chewing problem.

Seriously, what is "field hockey"? Isn't that called "lacrosse"?

 

[AuburnSeth]

The rules of soccer were formed in 1863. References to cricket go back to the 16th century. Hockey was referenced in a 1773 English book on sports. Tennis was developed in France during the Middle Ages.

Baseball is fresh and new by comparison. There are a lot of challenges with modern baseball but age of the sport isn’t one of them. If anything, going to a game makes some people think about simpler times and the rich history of the game.

This is the same reason I like to poop with a fan on. It makes me remember ancient times when people always pooped outside. I do it for the nostalgia, just like watching baseball.

 

[bergs]

This is the same reason I like to poop with a fan on. It makes me remember ancient times when people always pooped outside. I do it for the nostalgia, just like watching baseball.

I guarantee you that Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle never did this. And they were drunk for like 2 decades.

 

[bergs]

This is the same reason I like to poop with a fan on. It makes me remember ancient times when people always pooped outside. I do it for the nostalgia, just like watching baseball.

Mods pls rename user to “Poopstalgia”. Check is in the mail.

 

[AuburnSeth]

Mods pls rename user to “Poopstalgia”. Check is in the mail.

Love it. Requesting it now.

 

[Dodger]

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