whats the deal with baseball?
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That is why baseball needs a real salary cap like Football and hockey, but then yankee, braves and red sox fans will be mad because they won't make the playoffs every season and apparently parity only works in sports that don't play favorites with large market teams.
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Because money talks in baseball. Baseball is a kids sport that adults tend to screw up.
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baseball - it's the only sport that makes any sense to me
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THREE ISSUES W/ BASEBALL:\n(1) Steroids: Major issue obviously. Who takes them, who doesnt? Are there steroids that cant be detected yet? Should we have a stricter drug policy? Tons of question revolves around drugs in baseball. It will take a long time before they are answered.\n(2) Disparity: Major issue. Baseball tries to promote fair play. Yet all you have to do is look at a teams pay roll. You have the Yankees at about 200 million, and the Marlins at 15 million. Sure, the owners should take some blame. But having that large of a gap is just plain ridiculous to say the least. It is the leagues job to find better markets for teams.\n(3) Bats: Relatively minor. Tons of bats are breaking. Although you can say its because pitchers are making good pitches, the number of bats that are breaking are ridiculous. As a result, player safety comes into question. Should there be regulations on bats?
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Baseball is a little more laid back.  There's such long periods of inactivity, it's hard to stay riled up.  \n\nGo to a game when it's crunch time, and the outcome of the game really matters.  You'll see a lot more hootin' and hollerin'.
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Why does everyone care so much?  I'm getting tired of hearing and watching and reading Bonds, Bonds, Bonds.   Let's not forget that at 30 teams at a 25 man roster, minus Bonds there are 749 other people playing MLB.  Just once,\n can we focus on the good things?
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What does that mean? Is it about baseball, is it not, if not why is it in baseball category?
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I agree that other countries are pretty much on the same level as the United States when it comes to baseball.  I don't think it's embarrassing at all.  It's just the normal evolution of the game world wide.  It had to happen one day.  Just look at basketball, another American game.  We don't dominate basketball either on the world circuit anymore.  There are great athletes all over the world in all sports.  One day I'd like to see a real world series.  The champions from all the leagues across the world play in a world championship tournament and crown a real "World Champion."
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Lol..why is this in the baseball section?
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Its extremely different. For one, you don't run the bases as you do in baseball. And I do believe one person can keep hitting........and hitting.........and hitting. But what do I know? *shrugs*
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I love 'em both.\n\nIronically, contrary to first impressions, from a spectator's point of view football is a *thinker's* sport, and baseball is the *faster* sport.  \n\nHere's why:\n\nFootball is about planning, designing new innovations to the game, anticipating the other team's moves.  While baseball is also a bit of a chessgame, (when to bring in the infield, when to send up the pinch hitter, when to bring in the left-handed reliever), you don't see coaches trying to invent a new play, or entirely new tactics, strategy, or even an entirely new philosophy to offense or defense.\n\nBaseball has the reputation of being both a slow sport, and the thinker's sport ... but a good spectator understands that baseball is one of the fastest games there is!  It's *all* about preparation, anticipation, tension, and then sudden release of a flurry of action ... more can happen in a 3 to 5- second play in baseball than happens in almost any sport.  Anyone who says that baseball is boring, just has no understanding of the game.\n\n(Note, the above is just from a spectator's point of view ... as a player, and I've played both ... there is a completely different viewpoint.)
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Main article: History of baseball \nThe origins and evolution of the various bat-and-ball games are murky, and many believe that baseball is primarily an American invention. However, because of the similarity in its most basic form, of its rules and game-play, it is far more likely that it originated as an adaptation of the game of English rounders, vigaro and town ball. It was also influenced by the rules of cricket.\n\n \n1886 baseball demonstration at Conner Prairie living history museum.The first explicit references to baseball appear to come from England. The earliest known mention of the sport is in a 1744 publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "baseball" (showing a similar set-up to the modern game) and a rhymed description of the sport. Also, a British letter dating from 1748 by Lady Hervey describes how the then Prince of Wales diverted his time playing baseball. The English author Jane Austen specifically mentions the game of baseball in her novel, Northanger Abbey, being played by the protagonist, Catherine Moreland. The book was first written in 1798 and revised until publication in 1803.\n\nAlexander Cartwright had a hand in compiling and publishing an early list of rules in 1845 (the so-called Knickerbocker Rules) to meet the demands of the already popular sport, and today's rules of baseball have evolved from them.\n\nAs far back as the 1870s, American newspapers were referring to baseball as "The National Pastime" or "The National Game." An award-winning account of the origins of the game is David Block's Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). The publisher's description of the book notes that "David Block looks into the early history of the game and of the 150-year-old debate about its beginnings. He tackles one stubborn misconception after another, debunking the enduring belief that baseball descended from the English game of rounders and revealing a surprising new explanation for the most notorious myth of all—the Abner Doubleday–Cooperstown story." In short, the debate on the game's origins may never be settled to everyone's satisfaction.\n\nAnother early mention of the game can be found in an 1886 edition of Sporting Life magazine, in a letter from Dr. Matthew Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, formerly of St. Marys, Ontario, Canada, who details a base ball game played in Beachville, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 1838 -- Militia Muster Day.\n\nProfessional baseball began in the United States around 1865, and the National League was founded in 1876 as the first true major league, quickly producing famous players such as Honus Wagner. Several other major leagues formed and failed, but the American League, established in 1901 as a major league and originating from the minor Western League (1893), did succeed. While the two leagues were rivals who actively fought for the best players, often disregarding one another's contracts and engaging in bitter legal disputes, a modicum of peace was established in 1903, and they began playing a World Series that year.\n\nCompared to modern times, games in the early part of the 20th century were lower scoring and pitchers were more successful. The "inside game", whose nature was to "scratch for runs", was played rather more violently and aggressively than it is today. Ty Cobb said of his era especially, "Baseball is something like a war!" This period, which has since become known as the "dead-ball era", ended in the 1920s with several rule changes that gave advantages to hitters and the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who showed the world what power hitting could produce and thus changed the nature of the game.\n\nDuring the first half of the 20th century, a "gentlemen's agreement" in the form of the baseball
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Baseball is my favorite...to play or watch. The best part? All of it! The defense is just as exciting as the offense.
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Here's an analytical perspective. Baseball was THE SPORT of the Radio Age. Young Kids and their sports obsessed fathers sitting by a Radio listening to announcers describe "Towering balls hit by (Insert Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, etc. here) that could reach the moon" They'd sit there and even keep an at home scorecard. Everything was described BIG. Curveballs went from head to toe. Home Runs were 400 foot blasts. All these descriptions filled a lot of space.\n\nTo this day some folks listen to radio broadcasts of Baseball instead of watching the TV Broadcasts. I watched the Yankee games with the sound off and turned the radio on until Michael Kay went to TV. Now I actually listen to the TV's sound.\n\nThen came TV. And we got to see that Pitchers spend a lot of time scratching themselves between pitches. Curveballs don't go head to toe. Oh yeah and 400 ft. is from here to where I parked my car.\n\nThen came the Highlight reel. This actually helped baseball for a while.\n\nThen came the digital age. Games, PC's (Or Macs), etc. Things started getting faster. Basball didn't. (And no help from the Human rain delay Steve Trachsel mind you.) Football, Basketball, and Hockey (All very condusive to TV) get faster. Video Games of those sports rival the pace of the real games. Baseball's games. Well, to this day only one company has gotten a Baseball video game right. Acclaim's All Star Baseball (Now out of business no longer making that game because all their other games stunk.)\n\nBaseball is sort of an Athletic Chess. It's just a slower game. They've tried to incease Home Run output in hopes of increasing interest. However, I think they failed. For years, Baseball was the US's answer to Soccer. Our slow defensive game with a 3-2 score. The anticipation for the one big blow. The Home Run to ice the game had us captivated. The same way the rest of the world waits for that moment the announcer yells GOOOAAAALLLLLL!!!!!!! But, Home Runs happen all the time now. \n\nSo now Baseball to the younger generation is a slow game with great highlight reels. Watching it for them is difficult. Some guy scratches himself a lot while the announcer tells you how great his record is when pitching in day games on the equinox if he's at least more then 450 nautical miles North by Northwest of Fiji.\n\nAll that said. I do love Baseball. So much.
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It is an interactive sports game that can involve up to 12 players. Before the beginning of the season, you either have a live draft or an automatic draft to pick your teams. Each real live MLB player can only be taken by one Fantasy "Manager". You score points by the achievements of the real MLB players that are on your FANTASY team. You have the ability to trade and sign free agents. There are many different types of Fantasy Baseball. The most popular is the Head to Head type. That is where you play against one other "manager" in your league for an entire week. Getting points based on the stats that are selected for your league ( Hits, Runs, HR, ect ) If you want to learn more, please click on this link to read all the Yahoo Fantasy rules....\n\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/baseball/brules/index.html
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Baseball... no room for discussion.  Just simply put baseball.
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I really think baseball Stinks.........hmh. Y? because it ia slow game - which means BORING..... and also the game doesn't really make sense. I don't get Y some people are so much into Baseball !