Old White People Still Love Baseball

Baseball is also a great radio sport, something to have on in the background while doing something else.

 

it's good in the background of Paradise by the Dashboard Light

 

absolutely.

 

It's great as a control in a "would you rather get kicked in the ****" hypothetical.

 

Of course, you hate baseball. I like baseball.

 

It's not worth even discussing with him. I borderline hate soccer. Yet you don't find me creating threads, or posting endlessly about my disdain for it.

It is what it is. Have to consider the source.

 

He watches the NBA as well.....

 

pitch clock. pitch clock. pitch clock.

 

Let's go create a tennis bashing thread together

 

Depeche Mode is good to have in the background when you're giving it to the ole lady.

 

Master and Servants

 

That sport isn't worth my time. If I want to hear people grunt I'll just hang out in a public restroom more often.

 

I loved baseball religiously in the late 70s and 80s. In the pre-cable era I was glued to Monday night baseball on ABC with Howard Coselll and the NBC game of the week in Saturday's with Vin Scully and Joe Garagiola.

My 7 year old plays travel baseball for the 9U now, and I forgot how much I loved the game as a kid.

 

The game is perfect.

 

See you in 20 years. Or, ten.

 

PT Barnum and Pete Rozelle could take the helm, and guess what?

It's still shit. Because it's shit.

 

This.

It also doesn't help that they play, what, 800 games a season? Forgive me for not giving a shit about Game 117, where the Cubs beat the Bluebills (or who the f ever) 3-2 in 14 innings.

It's a shit game.
It takes too long to play.
It's boring as hell, even when the 1-2 guys who are involved are actually doing anything.
The regular season is grotesquely too long - so they stay beyond their already limited welcome.
Their off-season is too short - you don't have any time to even be thankful that they're gone, before they're back.
And, it's a shit sport.

MLB should pay ESPN to show their games, or re-supply the baby boomers with new TV's and leather recliners each year...because of any of those three things went away, baseball would fall almost completely off of it's already tenuous - and fading - perch.

 

I stopped caring for the game after the 94 season ended what could have been Tony Gwynn batting .400. I'll stop watching once my son decides to stop playing.
As a kid watching it on tv with no cable, less was more. Now it's too much to follow. I simply don't have the time to follow long drawn out season daily. That applies to nba as well.

 

I quit watching baseball when they started playing in golf slacks. How can I tell the Red Stockings from the White Sox when I can't even see their socks ?!?

 

My son is the only one on the team who wears the old school pants. I can't stand the new style.