Why is baseball so boring?
828771
Baseball is boring to everyone that is boring themselves just like you.
1006487
it would take amazingly long time to type up how to play baseball. ill give a short explanation. there is 4 bases in a diamond shape, then an outfield. a pitcher throws the ball trying to get it past the batter and over the home plate (a base) for a strike. 3 strikes and your out. \nthere are 3 outs in one inning. you play nine innings. if you hit the ball, you run up the dirt ob the right to first base. if the ball is cought while the first baseman touches the bag, your out. if you see that you could maybe get to 2nd base, turn and run there. you score by going all the way around the bases and touching home plate. oh, and if you hit a ball over the fence in between the to polls in left and right field, its a home run
715982
try thinking of something else, baseball maybe!
383596
many many many differences in the two, yet many similarities. The playing stratigies are different also. \n\nActually the game of baseball really originated from a game which was played more like softball! The balls were similar to the 16" softball game played today.\n\nAlso, a seven inning softball game goes a lot quicker than a seven inning baseball game! I have called a seven inning BB game which laste 4 hours, and also a seven inning SB game in 50 minutes!. Love 'em both though!
580928
yes, it is the ultimate sport\nchinese people are smart :D\nan average MLB game has about 7-8 minutes of action, and everything else is just boring\nsoccer has about 90+ minutes of action, and none of it is boring if u urself knows how to play soccer, cuz then u'll be like, hey i did that in a game too! and sh** like that
549117
its because their sports are so boring (baseball American football) that nobody else in the world play them so they call it the world series to make it sound better and the winning team can say its the best in the world which i suppose they are cause no one else plays them
104847
Numbers would be boring.
109087
there is one by my house but it isn't called extra innings, it's okay because unlike at a park, you can actually find 20-30 guys and play a game but it's indoors which really sucks. think of you playing basketball in your kitchen with the trash can, it gets that exciting.
1050918
It gets boring kinda fast, half the fun of football is being able to smash someone into the ground.
989211
its not very fun at all. all u do is sit around and wait for a dum homerun or something like that
928825
I have been waiting for that one.  I thought with the WNBA starting that if it succeeded, it would show that there is an interest.  But, so far I havent' seen it.  I see an answer above says there is a league, but it sounds so small.  I'd like to see a lot more teams and coverage.\n I have been a baseball fan since I was 8 and then discovered fastpitch in college.  I loved it!!  I actually find it to be a more exciting game than baseball now.  So much more small-ball skills are needed.  It's fast paced and it's a sport where it is possible to legitimately hit over .500 if you're a good slapper or drag bunter.  I definitely prefer small ball to cheap easy home runs that dominate the MLB today.
613420
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.
204767
Because baseball really isn't a sport.  You can play that game until your 50 and don't have to be in shape at all.
273865
Because baseball is a game for the weak and slow-witted, like NASCAR.\n\nFootball players get more physical punishment in a few plays that a pitcher does in a whole game. Basketball players run quickly for a whole game. Baseball players sort of stand there and do nothing and then have the stones to strike for more money. I hate baseball.
1074061
I feel the same way, baseball sucks now.  Used to love it, now I don't care.  The pregnant pauses between pitches, the sleeping outfielders, roidheads, it feels like people are forcing themselves to still pay attention.
612731
Soccer is fun to play but boring to watch.
872562
Because it's a thinking persons game.  Every pitch is an adventure.  It's the greatest game on earth!!