Why the hell would anybody like baseball?
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YO YO listen up...this is revolutionary.\n\nBaseball pretty much sucked in the early parts on the 1900's. Then scientists got smart and figured out what it was good for.\n\nInsomniatic patients finally had a way to get sleep! Simply turn on a Cubs game and presto! A deep sweet sleep in no time. People don't watch baseball for the game, just for the hot dogs, the drinks, and sleep.
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Before I got to the United States, I had seen only highlights of baseball games on TV.  All that music and fanfare had me believing baseball is paced like football, with lots of action.  Imagine my surprise when first watching an entire baseball game, to discover it has almost the leisurely, gentlemanly pace of cricket.  These two sports are said to have common origins in the English game of rounders, and they do invite comparison - the one choosing to run up and down on a single line, the other taking it to two dimensions and running around an entire square (or "diamond").\n\n\nIt's time we faced that all-important question: \nWhich is the "better" sport, baseball or cricket?\nSports fans - it's up to you to decide!\n\n\nWhen making your choice consider these factors:\n\nwhich sport is more fun to watch? \nwhich sport attracts the best fans? \nwhich sport generates the most interesting statistics? \nwhich sport requires more skill to play
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Cos MLB doesn't respect people. I'm not watching them anymore. Nobody should. they are covering and have covered athletes in th epast and they will do it in the future.\n\nI HATE MLB NOW! and i used to love it.
637461
How could you not like the Stros? They are a team of hard nosed unknowns who win through teamwork not the heroics of a couple players. Biggio embodies the spirit of the team. Even at 40 he still looks like a little kid and plays like one. If Biggio played that day you can be sure he got dirt on his uniform :) \n\nThats what the whole team is like. They play hard, play for the fun of the game and to win. Until they got Preston there wasn't a showboat or whiner on the team. Many of the vets took less money to play for the Astros. So it's not a team of greed. \n\nHouston as a city has long supported losing teams and finally have a winner. \n\nSo whats there not to like about the Astros
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I like baseball.  Its one of the only team sports where an individual is credited for winning or losing a game.  Its it suspenseful (most of the time).  You don't need to play close attention to the enitre game.  It fu8n to cheer for your team, and its the most fulfilling when your team wins the world series.  I'd rather my team win the world series then and other sport.
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Lol..why is this in the baseball section?
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My husband is a big Mets fan, I'm Yankees, but like the Mets, too. They're hot, hot, hot like you say. I think they could go all the way this year, for sure!!\n\nP.S. To "Jumpin-whatever"... Reading and watching sports are all part of a well rounded life. Baseball gave me a much better understanding of statistics & how they work than I ever got from the course in college. Broaden your horizons, you can learn things in places other than books.
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Because it's a thinking persons game.  Every pitch is an adventure.  It's the greatest game on earth!!
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I love baseball\nThe NY Yankees are my team.\nGo Yankees!!!!!
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I read this in "Our Game," by John Thorn:\nDouglass Wallop put it nicely:\n\nSaturday morning and hurtling from the house with a glove buttoned over his belt and a bat over his shoulder, rushing to the nearest vacant lot, perhaps the nearest alley, where the other guys were gathering, a place where it would always be spring. For him, baseball would always have the sound and look and smell of that morning and of other mornings just like it. Only by an accident of chance would he find himself, in the years to come, up in the grandstand, looking on. But for a quirk of fate, he himself would be down on that field; it would be his likeness on the television screen and his name in the newspaper high on the list of .300 hitters. He was a fan, but a fan only incidentally. He was, first and always, himself a baseball player. \n\n\n...for my perspective, baseball is what connects me to my great-grandfather, whom I never met, and the child and young man I was, whom I shall never meet again.  And for all its intricacies, just the simple acts of hitting, catching, throwing, and running are more beautiful to me than all the verse and prose that have been poured over the game.\n\n\nPS Curling is boring too but soooo fun!
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I play sports and like sports in general so I find it to be a fun extra outlet for competition. \n\nThere are those that don't like it at all and it is not for everyone.\n\nLike some things, you should try it to see if you like it and not just base your decision totally off of the opinions of others.
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it involves speed and so much skill overcoming teams wielding various sporting paraphanalia at you...who have various personalities and abilities.... \n\nYou put it together and its a heady mix...so why wouldn't you like it?
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probably becuase when they first played it one hundered or so years ago, the only pro teams in the "world"...were teams from the US\nbut it could be as one 'idiot' referred to as our collective ego....but then i wouldn't know about that....i just love baseball...
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Not if you like Baseball, and romance.
463152
The action in the sport. Baseball can be boring, football is too much like being raped in jail, hockey is for aggressive criminals, and boxing is for people who don't mind getting their asses kicked. Basketball is interesting and if played correctly won't cause pain. If feels good to hit a jumpshot. If feels even better to dunk the ball and crossover someone.
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I like baseball more myself.
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what the heck does this have to do with baseball?