I know most of you think baseball is boring, but Giancarlo Stanton is destroying the baseball. Several shots just under 500 feet.
It's not my favorite but I like baseball. It's a great sport to have on TV while your barbecuing, eating playing pool with the guys ext...
good baseball is always interesting..they play a lot of games so you're going to get a clunker here and there
I will say that the MLB games this season has moved along a bit faster this season though. So the MLB has made some progress on that!
The best part is that it's not ruled by a timer. Yogi Berra was right: "It's not over until it's over".
I hate watching baseball sometimes. You can literally not turn on the sport without being reminded about what's wrong with it. I was watching a Nationals game the other day and there were signs around the ballpark that said, "Make Baseball Fun Again." I honestly couldn't remember the last time a heard a bunch of people about it in a positive fashion. Players like Mike Trout and Bryce Harper show up in magazines and almost apologize for their talent. As if their ashamed of the way they make a living. It's too long. It's too boring. It's too old. It's dying. It's out of touch. It's too white. If it caused general malnutrition and bad breath I wouldnt be surprised. I used to look forward to the unique personalities. To Bob Uecker. To Harold Reynolds. To Don Zimmer. To Joe Torre. To the great scribe of the game, Peter Gammons...... There's that great line from Moneyball.... "How can you not love baseball?" Well Brad..... ask most Americans. They'll sure as hell tell you. Maybe I can watch the All Star game tomorrow and not have Rob Manfred apologize for all "he has left to change."
You forgot lacrosse. And honestly, I'm so deaf to that discussion it's not worth going in to. But if it more fun to gang tackle the shit out of a sport's identity.... then why the f-ck are we playing it in the first place. At least build some cricket grounds over a bulldozed Fenway Park. We can drink iced and be more Euro-centric. Americans cream in their jeans for anything European anyway.
Sorry, I didn't quite understand--what's changing about baseball that you fellas object to? I mean, I've heard people complain about two wild card spots and the DH and pitch counts, but some of the previous posts seemed to be getting something more ephemeral, more ineffable, but I couldn't figure out what that was.
