What's wrong with Major League Baseball? A Thread by Dale W.

missy · Post by **missy** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:08 pm

djm wrote:
What's wrong with baseball is that it isn't hockey.

djm

SCORE!

mutepointe · Post by **mutepointe** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 4:04 pm

i like watching little league baseball. anything can happen in one of those games. it's even possible to score a touchdown.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:42 pm

It's a game grown men playing indoors in their pajamas, on plastic 'grass', under lights, where even the dirt is especially imported from out of state (some place in the carolinas IIRC, is the source of regulation major league dirt) by men who biceps are unnaturally large and their testicles unnaturally small, both with a chemical assist.

Plenty more wrong than spitting.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 6:42 pm

Stickball is the REAL sport.

chas · Post by **chas** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:45 am

djm wrote:
What's wrong with baseball is that it isn't hockey.

Some Red Sox-Yankees series bear a strange resemblance to hockey.

buddhu · Post by **buddhu** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:06 am

What's wrong with it?

Why isn't it still just rounders? Same as American football... Why not just play rugby?

Did you change any of the soccer rules yet?

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:34 am

I wonder what changes the Americans would make to Dwile Flonking if they imported that noble sport.

johnkerr · Post by **johnkerr** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 10:44 am

I'm a flute player, which means I'm often seen in public with fluids dripping from my mouth. In my case, there's an expensive black wooden tube conducting the drip to a point beyond my own personal space before dropping it to the ground, but other than that I might as well be spitting. So baseball players spitting doesn't bother me. Now, them getting paid big bucks to spit when I don't, that bothers me. Also, they get more chicks than I do, even though they spit. Probably because they're getting those big bucks, eh?

djm · Post by **djm** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:38 am

jbarter wrote:I wonder what changes the Americans would make to Dwile Flonking if they imported that noble sport.

Probably add a coloured-belt ranking systtem.

djm

Wanderer · Post by **Wanderer** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:57 am

s1m0n wrote:It's a game grown men playing indoors in their pajamas, on plastic 'grass', under lights, where even the dirt is especially imported from out of state (some place in the carolinas IIRC, is the source of regulation major league dirt)

Wow, I hadn't ever heard of that. It seems silly.
I can't find a mention of special dirt in the official rules
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2007/ ... e_game.pdf

Do you have some source to back that up so I can have a good laugh? It just seems like something completely off the wall crazy. Granted, I don't know anything about MLB baseball, since I don't watch sports on TV, but that just sounds ridiculous.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:21 pm

Spitting? That's baby food. What I wanna see is your occasional "farmer blow". A nice, big honkin' one.

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 4:35 pm

What's wrong with baseball is that I didn't watch hardly any games this year, and when I did, in the last week or so, they were badly lopsided. In the ALCS, I saw a game where the losing team dropped TWO pop-flys in ONE GAME, then a guy got waved on then stopped at third base in a clutch situation. I mean, it was like GD'ed LITTLE LEAGUE!!!! And the Series, well, it was just pathetic after halfway through the third game. Crikey. And I live in an area where both of the local pro football teams are just suckin' bad this year AND the local Cinderella team (Cal) is falling faster than the dollar. Watching sports is shall we say, no longer an option, around here.

missy · Post by **missy** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:57 pm

The Weekenders wrote:And I live in an area where both of the local pro football teams are just suckin' bad this year .

Weeks - it could be worse.....

.... you could have the Bengals as your team........

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:44 pm

Nanohedron wrote:Spitting? That's baby food. What I wanna see is your occasional "farmer blow". A nice, big honkin' one.

I've seen enough of those !!!

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 8:50 pm

I was reminded of this - George Carlin's take on baseball and football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YphEUa5LPjM