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I love baseball. The strategy that goes into it is something I enjoy. Knowing at 2-0 pitch and the batter is sitting on Fastball. So the pitcher thinks... Throws a change instead and the batter adjusts and hits it out of the park.

I get why people don't like it though. If you haven't lived it, then it's very hard to get into. And there isn't a harder sport to accomplish than Baseball. I can shoot a 3 pointer, throw a touchdown. But I doubt I can hit a 90 mph fastball.
 
themanknownassting said:
I love baseball. The strategy that goes into it is something I enjoy. Knowing at 2-0 pitch and the batter is sitting on Fastball. So the pitcher thinks... Throws a change instead and the batter adjusts and hits it out of the park.

I get why people don't like it though. If you haven't lived it, then it's very hard to get into. And there isn't a harder sport to accomplish than Baseball. I can shoot a 3 pointer, throw a touchdown. But I doubt I can hit a 90 mph fastball.
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I do agree from a "skill" perspective hitting a baseball is probably one of the harder things to do in professional sports.
 
LogGrad98 said:
I have to admit I liked playing it for a few years until I discovered basketball and started getting taller. Then it was a lot like that girl you had a crush on in 3rd grade compared to the first girl you French-kissed. Just doesn't compare.
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I French-kissed my third grade crush.


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Baseball is hard to watch. There really is no arguing it. I grew up playing it. I coach my 9 year old right now. I enjoy going to the ballpark to watch The Bees here in Salt Lake about three times a year. But I struggle to watch a game I don't have a rooting interest in.


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LogGrad98 said:
...that baseball is insanely boring.



After the Jazz game at Staples Center last night we had tickets to the Dodgers game today at Dodgers stadium. Afternoon game, 75 degrees in the shade, seats about halfway up the mid-deck right behind home plate. It was a great place to take a nap, we found out. They actually had a batter at a full count when my daughter said "oh, did they start already?" We did get to see a triple play. Mostly it was a bunch of people all of a sudden saying "hey was that a triple play? wow". The most exciting thing that happened was the wave, which went around the stadium about twice, with maybe 60% participation. The food was, well kind of crappy. Had a dog and pretzel and a $75 thirty-two ounce soda, or something. It was generally fun to be outside and enjoy the great day and it was kind of fun to be at our first major league ball-game, but in the end it was PAINFULLY boring. It took all the way till the top of the 3rd inning for my daughter, who screamed herself hoarse at the Jazz game last night, to start asking "do we really have to sit through 3 more hours of this?"

The most exciting thing was watching the 2 young hot wives in front of us get up and down to go get their men snacks every half inning or so. Short white shorts, blue jerseys, nicely built. Yeah, that was the highlight. But, sorry folks, the objective scientific evidence is in, and it is undeniable and irrefutable:

BASEBALL IS INSANELY BORING.



That is all...otherwise, wow what a great weekend. Awesome game last night at Staples, decently enjoyable time with my fam at the Dodgers game, beautiful weather, nice "scenery". Doesn't get much better than that.


Note: the scenery is all that much better when your wife keeps leaning over and asking "did you see her butt?" Yes dear, I did, but I am happy to continually check it out for you if you insist.

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LOL .. man you have a great wife, I'm jealous.
 
Tak said:
Stephen Turnbull's books are always a good source for battles, weaponry, tactics and overall history of the period, although he gets caught a little in the romanticized view the Samurai. If you dig the format check Koike's "Lone Wolf and Cub" and "Samurai Executioner" mangas, awesome stuff.

jealous of your swords, I only have an old, lazily made replica mostly used to get the things my son throws under the bed.

Are you talking about the Tak of the Dark Tower series? I usually wait for King's work to be published in other media. Admittedly too chicken to read horror, my mind have a knack to wander and stumbling into topics at the most inappropriate hours, a lesson learned reading Lovecraft in my youth.
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No the series I'm re-reading is the Kingkiller Chronicles. It's really well-done fantasy. Kind of sword and sorcery kind of stuff. But not your standard Tolkien rip-off.
 
I passed a store up here in PC called Troutbum2. I almost turned around, went in, and asked if anyone knew Dave B.
 
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