Just taking each game as they come. We just have to keep working and playing hard. We have to stay focused. It's a long season. Anything can happen. We're making the right adjustments. Our team is really starting to come together. We're going to make a run for the playoffs. The Manager's wear a uniform — Could you imagine a football coach wearing tights like his players?
Or a basketball coach wearing baggy shorts, a headband, and a loaded. So why do baseball managers do it? And why the hell are they called "skipper? Relief pitchers — This job is even easier than the DH. You crack jokes in the bullpen for 7 innings, warm up for one, and then come in when your team is already winning and the other guys are tired. The relief pitcher is like a professional bully. Look at them when they stroll their lazy ass out to the mound; you'd think they were getting ready for 15 rounds in Madison Square Garden vs.
Basically, if you're a relief pitcher that means that you're not good enough to be a real pitcher, but your jokes are funny, so they keep you around on the team bus. Baseball players are Pussies — I'm talking major league pussies here.
Exhibit B : Wade Boggs, Hall-of-Famer, misses games because he strained his back while putting cowboy boots on. Exhibit C : Kevin Mitchell was late reporting to spring training because he hurt himself eating a microwavable donut.
I'm not making this up. Are you fucking serious? Exhibit E: Marty Cordova burned his face in a tanning bed and had to miss a game. Exhibit F: Glenallen Hill fell out of his bed, crashing into a glass table, while having a nightmare about spiders.
I rest my case. I'm Good at it — I'm no super athlete, but I can play baseball with the best of them. There was a time where I hadn't touched a glove or bat for three years, and I was asked to fill in on a baseball team… and I was the best guy on the team. It's not hard. It's America's pastime because it's easy. You have to run for less than a minute. You get to hit something. You can be small, tall, have six fingers on both hands or just have one hand.
There are so many rules, cheaters and for every glorious moment like Astudillo pitching, there are countless more forgettable ones that only exist for the duration of a baseball broadcast. But I still love it more than anything else. Maybe this is my inner Freud speaking, with me spending too much time putting my interests and childhood together to answer everything about myself, but baseball is the only constant I can say I truly have. His glove will not be on display at the Baseball Hall of Fame for fans to admire.
However, it was a lot of fun to watch. Even baseball, which can seem as unimportant and cliched as any other American pastime, is not without that. Your email address will not be published. And we haven't even gotten to the steroid issue. Let's just move on. It's hard to respect baseball when so many of the players in the league can still play at a high level with half a can of dip in their cheeks or carrying around an extra hundred pounds or so.
John Kruk said it best: "Lady, I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. Do you know how exceedingly difficult it is to care about a game when there are other ones? People say the NBA season is too long, and baseball season is almost twice as long.
You can not care about baseball for half of the season and then start paying attention when it matters. That's what the A's did last year. I don't actually know his name, but it doesn't really matter. It'll take like five years for him to actually get up to the majors, and that's if he hasn't been traded away by then, which is more likely.
Also, the MLB draft is a million rounds long, and by the end of it, teams are picking players as favors to friends. Don't you hate how the Raiders field is 10 yards longer and five yards wider than the Niners field? Oh, never mind, they're the exact same dimensions. Same with basketball and hockey. But for some reason, baseball fields feel like they can make up their own damn rules.
So we get fields like Minute Maid Park that slope up and have a pole in the field of play and Fenway Park, whose dimensions indicate whoever designed the outfield fence was drunk. It's like if Norman Dale went to go measure the hoop in Hoosiers and was like "how far to the free-throw line? Hmm, ours is only Sorry guys, everything is different here. We're screwed. Baseball happens basically all year long—is there really a need to count down during that wonderfully brief period of time when there isn't any baseball?
I'm not anti-statistics, so please put back your torches and pitchforks. Every moment used to present an opportunity of scoring back then. As a result, the crowd used to be on its feet. But unfortunately, that element or dose of excitement has gone missing at present. One of the prominent factors that better explain this abrupt change in the nature of the game is the pace. In general, low-scoring matches are less exciting compared to the ones that involve a high score. Unlike basketball or football , baseball has a slower pace.
Due to this reason, it does not present as many scoring opportunities as the other two sports do. Aside from slowness, there are several other factors that contribute to the sluggish pace of the game. Here are a few of those reasons. First of all, baseball is not the game that holds the attention of spectators by constant physical action and movement. In fact, baseball is one of those games that has the least physical demand.
Others get it in bits and pieces. For this reason, the majority of the players remain out of action for most of the time. When it comes to statistics in baseball, the general perception is that the latter is an incredible game for those who have a liking for facts and figures. Out of the plenty of the driving classes involved in the game, only the home runs and the double plays get the maximum attention. As such, there are only a few points in the game that will encourage you. Thus, even the most curious fans of stats would find it difficult to adhere to baseball for too long.
On average, a baseball game takes around 2 hours and 52 minutes to conclude which is much higher than a baseball or soccer game.
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