Posted on 07/14/2020 4:52:20 PM PDT by Rummyfan
As for baseball, let’s be honest. It’s boring to watch and it’s even boring to play. Ordinary people who aren’t being paid to play baseball cannot endure it except by playing it co-ed with beer, which makes practically anything endurable including watching paint dry.
About 90% of baseball consists of the players standing around while touching their privates whenever the TV camera is pointed at them or sitting around the dugout pretending to watch the other team while touching their privates. They often spit.
Why do people pay to see millionaires lolling about in a park and hiding in a little concrete bomb shelter while spitting and touching their privates? I can get that from the vagrants who live in the park and under the viaduct. For free.
If you’re a baseball fan, your life is very small. There’s a reason this game hasn’t caught on in the rest of the world (except in Japan, a country that practically defines boredom).
By the way, this has nothing to do with the fact that I was cut from the 9th Grade baseball team in an unfair, cruel and incompetent decision from which I’ve fully recovered and about which I have no hard feelings.
How about football? I’ll admit that football is fun to watch. It’s something like the Roman circus but without the lions. You get to watch overweight men collide helmet-to-helmet at breakneck speed and sometimes break their necks. What’s not to like?
Well, there’s the business where they taunt spectators who’ve paid a full day’s pay for a ticket by kneeling when the National Anthem is played. And they complain that they get paid only a million dollars a year unless they perform well, in which case they get only ten times that. And they pretend not to hear a player’s ugly antisemitic, Hitlerian remarks.
And they plan to play something called the “Black National Anthem.” If there’s a “Black National Anthem” then doesn’t that mean there’s a black nation? And conversely a white nation?
Are they actually promoting racially segregated nations? Has anyone thought this through?
The only thing that I care about in the sports world, is Sports Illustrated. That really does have redeeming social value.
Not in the slightest!
As a kid in Wisconsin in the 50s, the Bartholomew Brothers killed baseball when they bought the Milwaukee Braves, promising to leave them there, and then within a couple of years, moved them to Atlanta.
As a life-long Green Bay Packer fan, I gave up on them and all of the National Felon League when the bowed to disrespecting my country and its flag.
As a college student at the University of Wisconsin, I became a fan of college hockey and the skills required. Pro hockey was just mixed martial combat on skates.
I was never a basket ball fan, especially of the pro “sport”.
Watching the “woke” pukes infesting all of the sports, I have written them all off and will go out of my way to not purchase from their enablers (Sponsors).
I’ll spend my time restoring old machine and woodworking tools, and studying areas I am interested in. I am retired, and now I can be even more productive.
Yes -— when a no hitter is in the making, it is silent in the dugout!!!
When my youngest son was about 4 or 5 years old, some little kids were playing baseball. No ump —— just parents and there must have been 40 kids in the infield and outfield. The ball hit my son’s bat and fell about 2 feet in front of him. Dads told him to run to first base. All the kids in the infield tried to get the ball but there were too many of them and they kept dropping it. The Dads had my son go to second base, to third and then home, He had a home run his first time at bat, and the ball never left the infield!!! It was so funny to watch!!!!!
NOW TAHTS ONE I would have paid to watch.
LOL!
I watched a little league game a few years ago that reminded me of the Bad News Bears.
Had to grit my teeth to stop laughing cuz the parents would have killed me.
Ditto dat!
I miss minor league ball. MLB will NOT open stadiums. So pissed.
I’m learning the rules about Cricket....ha!
BTW, I doubt any of these kids know how to play move up baseball.
When we played and only had four or so of us, thats what we played.
BTW, the/our rules were such that you could throw the ball at a runner to get him out. Talk about bean balls!
There will be FOREVER an asterisk..on everything done.
The Commissioner is an idiot.
The NBA, and MLB will not finish their "seasons".....IMO.
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