Baseball Thoughts

baseball is the greatest game ever devised

plebs get fucked

Americans will never understand the depth of knowledge that goes into cricket. For example, in cricket a seasoned veteran can look at the colour of the pitch and get a good idea about how the game will play out, which bowlers will perform best, which batsmen will struggle and on which time of day wickets will fall.
I havent even gotten started on tactics. In baseball the tactics consist of, "let's hit the ball hard lmao." The Pitchers tactic is "Ayyyy let's through the ball fast". Just put three fielders on the designated fielder positions, have so comically dressed dude to act as wicket keeper and fuck it senpai just scatterthe rest in the designated 90 degree hitting wedge to which the batsman is limited. Field placments do not mater at all because the batsmen is forced, by the rules of the game, to hit it at the fielders.

Want to use the pace of the ball to angle a finely placed glance? lol fuck off you have to whack it in the designated hitting wedge faggot. Want to play a defensive stroke to keep out a good ball? Too bad dickhead you can't choose to do that just whallop it you goof! There is absolutely no vairiety in the game, no situational decision making required of the batsmen and no aspect of sustained mental fortitude.

All the nuances of the gentleman's game will never be understood by "lowest common demoninator" baseball fags who are more interested in how many toppings they can fit on their hotdogs, or how many roids they can put in their mexicans, than anything to do with their game. Baseball has about as much subtlety as american music, that is to say none at all

>>76783207
Why do you think this? My favorite sport is baseball because of the strategic aspect, but I would like to know what you think.

>>76783207
This.

>>76783224
Is this pasta?

>>76783224
Interesting.

>>76783235
Baseball is one of the few sports that is not dominated by time. Soccer, basketball, American football, etc. they all are determined by minutes and seconds.

In baseball, the score could be 0 - 9 in the 9th inning and the team with 0 could still win.

That is the best aspect of baseball. None of this bullshit about stopping because a clock says so.

>>76783261
I do agree.

>>76783261
this.
also it has the most parity of any major sport. either team could win any game, and the 162-game schedule means that even teams that have very little chance to win it all still have a shot.

>>76783224
Cricket is basically a dumb and boring version of baseball. The amount of subtlety and tactical and athletic ability on display in baseball makes cricket looks like the shitty joke that it is.

Cricket will NEVER be able to match the tradition and history and folklore of baseball either.

And don't even get me started on attendance and revenue. Baseball attracts 75 million people annually just in the MLB. Further 25 million people attend Japanese baseball and add other millions in caribbean and other nations. On the other hand, if you add up all the cricket attendances worldwide, they would struggle to cross even 10 million ROFLOL.

And oh, MLB is a $9.5 BILLION annual industry! Cricket is not even 1/10th of that LMAO.

All in all, cricket can fuck right off.

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>>76783312

unquestionably the GOAT sport

Gentle outdoor hobby which can be amused by everybody, especially old and obese people.
Doesn't require much skill, just swing and hope for a hit.
Also comfy stadiums, where you spend more time drinking beer/eating hotdogs/taking a piss/watching clouds than actually looking at live game action.

>>76783207
fpbp

>>76784358
>Doesn't require much skill
I'd love to see the average person hit a 90 mph fastball

The games take too fucking long. I used to enjoy it but now I can't stand it, just throw the fucking ball and quit grabbing at your dick. Pitch clock when?

>>76783207
Yep

A great sport. Not as fun to watch on tv as apehoop or handegg, but miles above something like divegrass (a women's sport)

Baseball's decline is proof of a decline in pastoral thinking... everyone is add now

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>>76785304
looks pretty easy to be honest

>>76785304
I about pissed myself the first time I saw one ~85 with movement. You have to make the decision to swing and where before the ball comes out of the pitchers hand at >90

It's part of American heritage. A truly classic game.

>>76785304
The average human bean couldn't even make contact on a 90 mph fastball, let alone do anything with it.

The GOAT sport

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>>76783224
>"Ayyyy let's through the ball fast"
Dumb mick

Baseball is not a sport.
/thread.

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>baseball players don't have skill