OT: Baseball is dying...

[midnightpulp]

I got in just to see the charts and it didn't disappoint.

I hate facts that disprove my opinion

[midnightpulp]

What's your point? I said golf is an unathlethic game, not that it's easy. Being a professional gamer/billiards player /darts player is hard af too but that doesn't mean those guys are great athletes.

Thing is you're trying to equate two games/sports (like billiards and gaming, moreso gaming) where athleticism doesn't really play a significant role in the outcome (e.g. you can't jump higher, run faster, throw harder, etc to gain an advantage in a Starcraft match) to sports that pretty much everyone who isn't biased agree prominently feature all around athleticism (like baseball).

I would also argue modern golf is an athletic sport. This isn't the golf of Craig Stadler and John Daly. A golf swing is a pretty intense athletic event that uses the entire body in unison. If you're not in great physical condition, expect major back and hip problems throughout your career. Definitely not an athlete:



Like I said, your view of athleticism is narrow. I consider it the ability to control several parts of your body well enough to get them working together in unison in order to perform some physical feat (swinging, throwing, kicking, etc). If anything, "running around" is the least athletic of the various core traits because it's simple to do right out of the proverbial box. I would consider peak Tiger Woods a better athlete than Usain Bolt, because the athletic skill Tiger had to learn is a lot more multidimensional than just running fast in a straight line.

[lefty]

I'm not gonna lie I've watched the World Series.
Really helped to fight sleep deprivation.

Games 8 and 9 pls

[140]

I got in just to see the charts and it didn't disappoint.

[DMC]

The problem with baseball started when steroids entered the scene. Suddenly it wasn't about making great plays, great pitching, great on base percentages.. but about home runs. Canseco, McGwire, Sosa, Bonds... those types were all the talk in baseball. Add Clemons to the mix and suddenly so many of the game's heroes became zeroes, folks stopped watching.

It's still a good game, but it takes a while to recover. These days, a midget like Altuve can win the MVP.

[midnightpulp]

a 15.1 and up from last year's game 6. Also a higher rating than any NBA Finals game that isn't a game 7 since the Jordan era.

Apa
Povertyball crew

[140]

Makes sense, tbh

[Clipper Nation]

Mexico, Chile, the UK and Germany are all well above the OECD average... no wonder they love povertyball so much

[140]

[midnightpulp]

Makes sense, tbh

South Korea and Japan are the lowest and are baseball countries

We also became fatter right at the same time soccer became a popular youth sport activity. B.A.W.

[DAF86]

Game 7 of the World series. Your team is 4 outs away from losing and people are yawning on the stands.

[DAF86]

What a ty ass game 7, tbh. You can say whatever you want about Soccer's limited scoring. But that assures you that 99% of the time, you will get a tense, compe ive, engaging game 'till the end, on these kind of finals.

[midnightpulp]

What a ty ass game 7, tbh. You can say whatever you want about Soccer's limited scoring. But that assures you that 99% of the time, you will get a tense, compe ive, engaging game 'till the end, on these kind of finals.

Tense game 99% of the time in soccer. Brazil vs. Germany was tense, sure.

You also don't understand baseball if you think that game wasn't tense. No surprise there.

[DAF86]

Tense game 99% of the time in soccer. Brazil vs. Germany was tense, sure.

You also don't understand baseball if you think that game wasn't tense. No surprise there.

Do the hardcore Dodgers fans that were yawning on the stamds not understand baseball either?

Germany vs Brazil was awesome, tbh. Soccer finals can't lose. If they end with a low score the game remains engaging 'till the end, if they are high scoring games the rarety factor makes them special.

Anyway, why did you think giving one (bad) example would disprove my 99% comment, tbh?

[midnightpulp]

Do the hardcore Dodgers fans that were yawning on the stamds not understand baseball either?

Germany vs Brazil was awesome, tbh. Soccer finals can't lose. If they end with a low score the game remains engaging 'till the end, if they are high scoring game the rarety factor makes it special.

Anyway, why did you think giving one (bad) example would disprove my 99% comment, tbh?

A 2-0 soccer game is like a 5-0 baseball game (look up the win expectancies on that), and A LOT of soccer games, even Finals end on that score.

5-0, 5-1 is not a huge lead in a baseball game, and there were many potential Dodger rallies stunted tonight by the Astros defense and Dodgers choking. For those of us who've watched more than 10 baseball games, we know anything can happen in any particular inning until you get out of it, since in baseball (like all well designed sports), you can take the lead from a deficit on a single possession.

[Clipper Nation]

What a ty ass game 7, tbh. You can say whatever you want about Soccer's limited scoring. But that assures you that 99% of the time, you will get a tense, compe ive, engaging game 'till the end, on these kind of finals.

That was a great Game 7. Much closer than the final score. The Dodgers left 10 on base, after all. It only feels anti-climactic when compared to the insanity that was Games 2 and 5... or Game 7 last year, for that matter.

[midnightpulp]

That was a great Game 7. Much closer than the final score. The Dodgers left 10 on base.

He honestly doesn't understand baseball. He evaluates it like he does basketball or soccer, and only considers events where the ball is in play as relevant action.

[DAF86]

I understand human body language just fine, and I know that yawning isn't the result of being engaged, tense or entertained, tbh.

[midnightpulp]

I understand human body language just fine, and I know that yawning isn't the result of being engaged, tense or entertained, tbh.

Cherry picking a couple of people out of 56,000.

Not an argument. You don't understand baseball. That's all.

[lefty]

It's dead, Jim

[lefty]

Game 7 of the World series. Your team is 4 outs away from losing and people are yawning on the stands.

[DAF86]

Yesterday, my soccer team got royally screwed on the semi of the most important southamerican club tournament and I couldn't sleep all night despite having slept only about 4 of the previous 48 hours because of job and study obligations. The idea of yawning during a final game of my favourite team is just inconceivable; but it seems to be a recurrent happening on baseball, tbh.

[DAF86]

Cherry picking a couple of people out of 56,000.

Not an argument. You don't understand baseball. That's all.

There is literally not a single time I zap into a baseball game and not see the shot of a guy yawning or sleeping on the stands, tbh.

[midnightpulp]

Yesterday, my soccer team got royally screwed on the semi of the most important southamerican club tournament and I couldn't sleep all night despite having slept only about 4 of the previous 48 hours because of job and study obligations. The idea of yawning during a final game of my favourite team is just inconceivable; but it seems to be a recurrent happening on baseball, tbh.

I'm sure they were royally screwed due to soccer's ty game design. Definitely a reoccurring theme with that "sport."

I don't get how a couple of fans yawning (yawning doesn't prove anything about anything) out of the hundred thousand people who watched this series in Houston/LA proves anything? Hope you're not studying law, science, or any other kind of field which relies on evidence to prove a case. You guys are bad at that anyway. Why I need to hit you with so many graphs, since it's obvious you don't know how to use google

[DAF86]

I'm sure they were royally screwed due to soccer's ty game design. Definitely a reoccurring theme with that "sport."

I don't get how a couple of fans yawning (yawning doesn't prove anything about anything) out of the hundred thousand people who watched this series in Houston/LA proves anything? Hope you're not studying law, science, or any other kind of field which relies on evidence to prove a case. You guys are bad at that anyway. Why I need to hit you with so many graphs, since it's obvious you don't know how to use google

Dude, that doesn't happen with hardcore fans of any other major team sport on important matches. How many times have you seen folks yawning or sleeping during the superbowl or during the NBA finals? I'm sure that you being the pathological internet arguer that you are will find maybe one or two examples in history; but on these playoffs alone I caught at least 5 games where that happened, including game 7 of the ing World Series.