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Baseball: Is it well-paced elegance or just slow and boring?
By Gary | April 13, 2008
My son and I have a good-natured battle that goes on every baseball season. I maintain the finesse of the sport lies in the careful elegance of well-thrown, well-hit balls and the extravagance with which true believers keep all the statistics and relish them.
He says it's just a slow, boring game played by people who either are too overweight and out of shape to play real sports or who are "juiced" on steroids.
What do you think about the matter? Or do you think about baseball?
While I will admit, if you press me on the matter, that the game could stand to be a bit more "up tempo," I still enjoy the test of wills as batters scratch the dirt then square off to face pitchers; and pitchers scuff up the mound, pound the ball in their gloves, then lean in with intense concentration to size up the batter, get their signs, and fire the ball toward home.
My son, now in his early 30s, thinks that's ridiculous. As I write this, we're sitting in front of the television watching the end of the second inning in a game between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals (we're Cardinals people). His only comment on the game to this point was: "You know, I still have never seen a major league baseball game that was half as interesting or as much fun as the movie 'Major League.'"
Okay, he and I may disagree about the nature and purpose of baseball, but it's hard to fight logic like that. I liked the movie a lot myself.
Fathers and sons. There's nothing quite like it in the world, is there?
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April 20th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
I’ve been a baseball fan my whole life. I love the steady, constant pace of the game. I think football is much more “slow” with it’s frequent time outs.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I agree that baseball has a steady, constant pace, and I enjoy it myself. Can’t really see football as slower, even with the timeouts.
What I really find hard to deal with is “basketball time.” Whether it’s college or NBA, basketball is the only rapid-paced game I’ve ever seen that can drag the last five minutes out over, oh, say, AN HOUR (well, maybe not quite that bad)!! LOL!
May 30th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
What’s not to love about baseball ? the sport has never been more popular…when you realize that when Roger Maris hit his 61st HR at Yankee Stadium there just 5000 folks in the stands…once you get past the ” guys standing around and hitting a ball with a stick” philosophy and find the time to learn the game with all its nuances, you’ll be hooked for life ! As Tim Kurkjian said ” Baseball is golf with athleticism”…there is certain finesse which goes along with the unparalled athleticism and strategy… I just love it like millions of others…