Baseball players are wimps

self | 10/27/08 | learner

[GOP_Raider]

So are those who write vanities.

[Gondring]

Ever think that it might not be discomfort of the players, but the fact that a soggy baseball doesn’t make for a very interesting game?

[MinorityRepublican]

Why post this now?

[richmwill]

Another reason I prefer the NFL. I’ve never seen an NFL game have a “rain delay”.

[allmost]

Thank you for that brilliant insight.

[SamAdams76]

Well, I guess a cold, hard rain makes the baseball players run indoors. Meanwhile, football players play in blizzards, hurricanes, tornados and even if the world was to end on a October Sunday afternoon due to a giant comet striking Earth, you can be sure that the games would go on as scheduled.

[1rudeboy]

That’s actually a good point: what makes someone who has a random thought run to an internet forum and post it for others to see?

[allmost]

They nixed the Sunday night game for this.

[Emile]

As the great writer Red Smith once said, “The only ones who think baseball is dull are those with dull minds”.

[txroadkill]

Well, beat the drum and hold the phone - the sun came out today!
We're born again, there's new grass on the field.
A-roundin' third, and headed for home, it's a brown-eyed handsome man;
Anyone can understand the way I feel.

[Chorus:]
Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.

Well, I spent some time in the Mudville Nine, watchin' it from the bench;
You know I took some lumps when the Mighty Casey struck out.
So Say Hey Willie, tell Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio;
Don't say "it ain't so", you know the time is now.

[Chorus]

Yeah! I got it, I got it!

Got a beat-up glove, a homemade bat, and brand-new pair of shoes;
You know I think it's time to give this game a ride.
Just to hit the ball and touch 'em all - a moment in the sun;
(pop) It's gone and you can tell that one goodbye!

[Chorus x2]
Yeah!

[rabidralph]

I question the timing of this vanity.

[Russ]

Spoken like someone who never played the game. If you had played on any higher level you wouldn’t be saying those things.

[TChris]

Every professional sport that has ever held a strike is made up of wimps, IMO.

I gave up on all of them.

[Old Sarge]

This thread got Vannitized.

[deport]

Baseball is at best boring;

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But it seems to have captured your interest however boring it maybe........ LOL

[Enchante]

re: baseball in the rain

I’ve played quite a few sports in all varieties of rain, from light to medium to heavy windy downpours.

There is no doubt that playing baseball in anything worse than a light rain pretty much wrecks all dimensions of the sport. It’s really not worth playing from anyone’s perspective once the density of rain makes it too difficult to see and handle the rather small ball. You could insist on forcing it through to prove “toughness” but it would simply be a horrible game without value, that neither fans nor players would care anything about.

[theDentist]

Tell us how you really feel... :-)

Look, games are often called on account of rain. And when it comes to the Series, you want both teams at their utmost.

[misterrob]

Different games. A pitcher needs to have a consistant motion and landing point in order to do his job. Interfere with that and he risks shoulder or elbow injury which can end a guy’s career or damage his team’s investment. Worse, if he slips and uncorks a 95 mph fastball and clocks the batter then what?

[raptor29]

“cry’s about rain”?

I might be careful about throwing grenades there, genius, when you’re exhibiting this level of intellect. And regarding baseball not playing in the rain, you apparently have never played, otherwise you would know that at a certain point, execution of the game is so negatively impacted by the weather that it is better to shut down for a while. For example, when you can no longer grip the baseball, you might have a tendency to hit someone in the head with a pitch!