I just don't understand USA's facination with baseball... is it really is a sport requiring athletisim?
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baseball does not require anywhere near the degree of athletisim that sports like basketball, football and soccer do. What makes the game interesting is the matchups and strategy that you come to see only when you have a good grasp of the game. The most important of these is the pitching. How the pitcher mixes and chooses the placement of his pitches and the types of pitches he throws. I can understand how someone wouldn't like baseball its an aquired taste
216230
many americans are ignorant unwilling to accept cultures or learn anything about a culture other than their own.  So don't take notice of the greatest sport in the world.\n\nIt's their we have everything we need here already philosophy, which also means that most don't travel outside their own country, great shame given proximity to South America.
350673
baseball is the only sport where you can fail 3 out of 10 times and still be considered successful,  besides what is there not to like about baseball. Trying to hit a round ball with a round bat, an inch is the difference between a homerun and a pop up. A sport where strength has nothing to do with your success. Baseball is a real life chess game between teams. I guess if youre into football and all the hitting then youlle be dissapointed by attempting to watch 9 innings of baseball. But baseball is just one of the sports you cant pick up right away and just be good, even if you are a natural athlete, and a players strongest attribute is his head, the real game of numbers. A pitcher can throw a no hitter and still lose, i can just sit here all day and think about what really makes me love baseball. and the guys like pujols, smoltz, clemens is what really make people love the game.
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It's the nature of the game, of all sports for that matter. Everyone thought the US would take the new World Baseball Classic, but they lost. The best teams never win every game. If they did, events like the World Cup wouldn't be as popular as they are now. Repeat winners gradually lose their luster.
1171100
There isn't that large of a fan base for the pros.  We used to go to the games and virtually no one was there in the stands.  I think that they should have left softball in the olympics.  Softball has always been a hot topic of the olympics.  Since I have graduated from college, I had to hang up my glove.  Damn, it hurt so bad.  Now all I have to look forward to is the NCAA championships to watch each May.  I tried coaching varsity high school softball, but the girls didn't have the heart that I had for the sport and it was just too frustrating.  The problem is that people like watching men play sports more so than women.  What's sad is that I have to listen to my boyfriend say that MLB is much harder than Fastpitch softball.  It really pisses me off.  I think that ESPN has noticed that they get great ratings during NCAA championships, so now they might play the National games.  I have a couple of friends that played pro in Akron, but they didn't get paid good and the fan base was not great.
1023055
What's this have to do with baseball!!?!???!???
45112
I think that they should keep the politics out of the World Baseball Classic and treat it like the Olympics. By not letting the Cuba team play, it will leave the critics too much lead wat to debate the outcome of the VERY FIRST World Baseball Classic. Since it is the 1st one, I believe that it is very important for it to be as successful as possible with as few problems on and off the field as possible. I am very excited about the pride that all the MLB players are taking in this event. \n\nOne more note on Cuba baseball. It is just totally strange to me that the 2 most successful MLB players from Cuba have been involved in Steroid cases leading to me wonder about how great the Cuba baseball organization really is. I am sure that they have good players, but the ones that have made it to the MLB have either been a flop or have been tested for steroids. \n\nI say that the USA team will be more concerned with the DOM REP team than the Cuban Team.....
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Hey, not all us Americans are like that!  I've played/coached for 15 years, and the only people I've found who don't like watching are the ones who don't know what's going on.  If you've got such a passion for calling it out, try learning a little about it then watching.  The reason people get so exciting is that they anticipate what's about to happen.  It's a thinking person's game...
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First of all it is NOT a tournament.\n\nSecond, The Championship of Baseball has ALWAYS been called The World Series since it's inception in 1903.\n\nThat is the way it has ALWAYS been, and will ALWAYS be.
1162619
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 !
144031
The best players from countries all over the in the world play on US teams. \n\nAlso do not forget, the name World seies came about 100 years or so ago. At that time, there was little question that the best baseball in the world was played in the US. It is just a name, I weould not get that worked up over it.
120921
No, the sport has spread enough that the USA would be slaughtered by a team of World All Stars.  The World Baseball Classic is different because each nation has some players but to consolidate them all against the USA wouldn't work so lets stick to NL vs AL.  I don't care for the homefield in the WS stipulation though.  The team with the best record should have homefield with the exception of a Division winner vs the Wild Card the division winner should always have homefield.
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Why Does'nt Asians/English/Aussies play Baseball? If you say.."some do play" then I would say too.. "some do play" lol\n\nAmericans wanted everything different when they broke from their mother country UK... and attained Independence..like say.. Left-hand Drive, Left side of the road etc..  So, They invented a different form of Cricket called "Baseball"
603046
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.
291550
It's a thinking man's game.  There is a lot of strategy.  Yes, it can be boring to watch at times, but there is so many things going on in the game that the casual viewer misses.  I watch the "game within the game".  For example, when there is a good base stealer on base and a pitcher tries to keep him close to the base.  Baseball is also a numbers game.  Baseball is the best game for satistics.  It is also nice to compare players and eras.
908208
Well, most Americans have no patience.  It takes very long for somebody to make a goal, so they give up on the waiting.  In basketball, baseball, and that horrible thing that they call "football" here, the players score more frequently, giving people more to cheer about.  In soccer, we're waiting FOREVER with suspense, and then the game ends 1-0!  Grar, I cant believe Italy won the world cup again!!!  Sry, for that bit of anger, I'm a Germany fan.  The US is so pathetic that I dont even bother rooting for them.
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Baseball is the American pastime because it is woven into the history of the United States.  Legends say it started back in the Civil War with Abner Doubleday.  Baseball saw the United States through wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and so much more.\n\nThis quote from Field of Dreams sums it up better than I can put it into words.  It's one of my favorite quotes of all time.\n\n"The one constant through all the years has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, is a part of our past. It reminds us of all that once was good, and that could be again."