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Oh man! How can "Gridiron", which will be Football from now on in this post, and Baseball be taking so much crap.
Football is an amazingly tough game. First of all, make the soccer pitch about half as wide as it is. Make all 22 players start the play 20 feet from each other, and then see how far you can run. It's friggin tough. Aside from the obvious physical strain, the 50 coaches on every team will tell you that making tactics to get 15 yards on one play against some of the fastest, strongest, and toughest athletes in the world isn't very easy.
And baseball. You try standing in a batters box, trying to hit a Pedro Martinez 97mph fastball with a bat about 4 inches wide. At least in cricket you get some big wide paddle, armor, and a bounce to take off speed! Then add it to the fact that there is a war about "protecting players" in which players will retaliate to something done to their teamates by bringing that same 97mph hard, fast ball right down on your head. A coach deciding when to bunt, squeeze, steal, hit and run, pitchout, pickoff, intentional walk, pitch to, pinch hit, pinch run, change pitchers, and make defensive substitutions are all hard ones to make.
Now, you are down to your last out, and only need a hit. The average player gets a hit 1/4 of the time, who you want up at bat is based on past experience, nerve, the player's handedness, their height, their speed, basically everything about them. The game may seem slow, but that's because there are more intricasies in baseball than in ANY other sport.
The worst sport by the way is cricket. It's the one sport that I can watch for an hour and not start to realize what's going on. I'll use some baseball terms here to explain what I'm talking about because I don't know the cricket ones.
The pitcher bowls, and I assume he's trying to hit that wicket behind the batter. The batter hits the ball somewhere, and most of the time absolutely nothing happens. Everyone just stands there, and they get ready for another bowl. Once in maybe 10 times they run, for whatever reason, to the other wicket, and the hitters and bowlers switch, or something like that. It's so damn confusing, where does the scoring come from, how do these games take days to complete?!?! Anyone who says baseball is boring should watch cricket and change their mind, because it is like a slower, less exciting baseball.
wow, that was a lot.
Football is an amazingly tough game. First of all, make the soccer pitch about half as wide as it is. Make all 22 players start the play 20 feet from each other, and then see how far you can run. It's friggin tough. Aside from the obvious physical strain, the 50 coaches on every team will tell you that making tactics to get 15 yards on one play against some of the fastest, strongest, and toughest athletes in the world isn't very easy.
And baseball. You try standing in a batters box, trying to hit a Pedro Martinez 97mph fastball with a bat about 4 inches wide. At least in cricket you get some big wide paddle, armor, and a bounce to take off speed! Then add it to the fact that there is a war about "protecting players" in which players will retaliate to something done to their teamates by bringing that same 97mph hard, fast ball right down on your head. A coach deciding when to bunt, squeeze, steal, hit and run, pitchout, pickoff, intentional walk, pitch to, pinch hit, pinch run, change pitchers, and make defensive substitutions are all hard ones to make.
Now, you are down to your last out, and only need a hit. The average player gets a hit 1/4 of the time, who you want up at bat is based on past experience, nerve, the player's handedness, their height, their speed, basically everything about them. The game may seem slow, but that's because there are more intricasies in baseball than in ANY other sport.
The worst sport by the way is cricket. It's the one sport that I can watch for an hour and not start to realize what's going on. I'll use some baseball terms here to explain what I'm talking about because I don't know the cricket ones.
The pitcher bowls, and I assume he's trying to hit that wicket behind the batter. The batter hits the ball somewhere, and most of the time absolutely nothing happens. Everyone just stands there, and they get ready for another bowl. Once in maybe 10 times they run, for whatever reason, to the other wicket, and the hitters and bowlers switch, or something like that. It's so damn confusing, where does the scoring come from, how do these games take days to complete?!?! Anyone who says baseball is boring should watch cricket and change their mind, because it is like a slower, less exciting baseball.
wow, that was a lot.
