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?
” I now have much more time on my hands.”
THAT RIGHT THERE is the best reason to forgo the idiocy of “professional” sports.
Spending half or all of your Sunday on football games and endless beer commercials? Same for Saturday college games.
I am so glad I never got into the Pro Sports thing. I have way to much to do on the weekends around my home as well as spend that time with my family.
It started with Monday Night Football. The game became a backdrop to the announcers, and a way to advertise other shows. They'd sometimes skip entire plays while they interviewed some celebrity plugging a special on ABC.
Peak cringe was about 1997 on ESPN. They had an Iowa game on, and Tom Arnold, an Iowa alum, was plugging his McHale's Navy remake. They had him in an insert OVER THE TOP OF THE PLAY, talking about how his Iowa jersey made his nipples raw.
The networks payed the bills, and they took over the sport. Schools wonder why attendance is dropping, but you don't know whether the kickoff is 11 AM or 8 PM until the week before the game. Stop play for commercials, and a guy walks out with a sign board that counts down three minutes. A fifteen minute quarter with three minutes of action takes an hour.
NOW, the players are telling us they don't like over half the fans.
Motorsports (especially Formula 1), mountain climbing, and cave diving are Sports. The rest are just games.
Don’t miss it at all. I’ll never watch NFL again. The rest I quit a few years back.
The NFL is boring.
Nope not a bit.
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
LOL oh yes it does, you are a loser. Baseball is the greatest game ever. The only thing I miss this year; bars no restaurants no, good news is I will have pretty good seats when the season starts and they let us in. Wish we played it like latins, 4-5 hour games in central America.
Los Angles sports was all basketball all the time.
Do not miss.
I'll miss football but I have a special hatred for the Communist Chinese Plague for killing college basketball when Dayton was 29-2 and ranked 3rd in the country going into the post season.
Except for those people who scream "get in the hole". Something needs to be put in their holes.
I find that coworkers who still watch sports all the time are single-faceted and use it to dull their senses. It's a visual drug to them and it's sad to watch them get bypassed by everything else that's going on.
We are SF Giant fans, and have met present and past players, and most have been good guys.
Three years ago this month we cut our cable due to the liberalism of the nets and the Colon Liberal Cancer.
We subscribed to Sling to get most of the Giants baseball games. Good announcers and management without the left wing bs.
We are letting our Sling subscription lapse.
Sling was reasonably priced and did not carry ESPN, Disney and ABC. However, with Buster staying at home and the great Giant Manager retiring, we are letting it lapse.
We don’t miss the BLMers insulting our country, our ancestors and those of us who served and our wives who served by being our wives.
-PJ
“...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.”
No. Never paid much attention to sports.
I grew up in a small town in far NE Wisconsin. A town of not more than 200 people..and as many in the “country” round abouts.
We had six or seven baseball and softball teams-and darn good ones at that.
Little league, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, High School team, Town Team-that was older players out of college and such. Girls softball, ladies softball-although that one didnt last long.
Firday late afternoon was the Babe Ruth, Sat was the Connie Mack game, and Sunday after church..abt 1:00 was the Town team game. The town team actually had several minor league players who did not make in in the majors, playing in that league. Actually, there was a couple of major league retired pitchers who played-John Hiller was one and Terry Helding was the other although I cant remember who he played for in the majors. EVERYBODY in the town went to the games. Equipment was purchased through collections by passing the hat around.
Little League was Wed evening-they actually had two teams for a while. Tuesday afternoon and Thursday afternoon was the girls and womens softball games.
The Connie Mack team went to the midwest regional and lost by a score of one to nothing in Indiana. There was three or four of my friends on that team who were scouted by the majors. All of them went to Nam, one got killed and the others simply gave the game up.
“Getting exercise is more important and fun too.”
Also, healthier and probably the best anti CV19 prescription.
“I miss hockey! Pro, minor league, roller hockey, college, any kind of hockey.”
Watching NHL hockey fights never gets old. Especially watching the fans behind the Plexiglas getting their rocks off as the designated gladiators have at it on the ice.
I’m looking forward to the opening of baseball season — finall
Nationally-televised opener. Cole vs. Scherzer. Should be a good game.
Wrong, every word.
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