Baseball or lax

Lacrosse is fun and all but its hardly a sport. I've yet to meet anyone who has any interest in it besides high school and college age kids who play it.
 
i don't think the interest level at the pro level legitimizes the claim that it is not a sport. it is as much of a sport as baseball/football/soccer.
 
ok and where is baseball popular besides america, latin america and japan? and saying lacrosse isnt a sport is fucking retarded its almost as old as soccer and has been around just as long if not longer than hockey. Its the REAL american sport and its only big in canada and america because we dominate other countries every year in the world championship. Basically you can argue all you want how baseball is better but ATHLETICALLY baseball players have shit on us. yeah its a crazy mental game ill give you that but physically you got shit on us.
 
No offense but thats basically because in Europe its almost exclusively for girls. Most high schools have school sponsored girls' lacrosse teams but guys have to play through a club team.

In addition, from playing for a little while, I'd say its one of the easiest sports to pick up. All you have to know how to do is run around and catch a ball with a little basket. Being able to hit a baseball on the other hand is much more difficult. In endurance athletics I'd say Lacrosse players have baseball players beat, in actual skill though baseball wins. There's no way in hell I could have made my high school's varsity baseball team. I could have made the Lacrosse team easily and been one of the better players by the end of the year. I saw a couple of my friends do it.
 
play baseball buddy. My parents never let me play on a team until high school where they said I could try out, obviously thinking I wouldn't make the team and it'd all be good for them. They were right, I was cut freshman year, but they didn't expect the coaches to want me as bad as they did. They couldn't take me because I had absolutely no fundamentals, but (not being a cocky buttmunch) I had a cannon arm and long ball power in the bat. They demanded that I get some coaching in the summer and try out the next year. Got to know a pitching coach well, who taught me everything, he got me onto a really good summer ball club and I had a fantastic season. Threw a no-hitter and lost just one game as starting pitcher. Everything was going well, teams wanted me for next season, so on...BUT then my shoulder completely fell apart on me. I was throwing too hard for my shoulder to take and I wasnt anywhere near strong enough to handle it. School team took me the next year but with the hurt shoulder I pitched one game, which i definitely shouldnt have done. It took 3 doctors and 2 physical therapists until one could find out what exactly was wrong with my shoulder. Turns out I had lost the internal rotation in my pitching shoulder which caused ridiculous pain everytime I threw. I took PT very seriously for months and months but recovery was super slow and I had already missed my opportunity for college ball, so for the last two years I had pretty much given up. Not till recently have I really started to regret stopping my workouts and training, but now I'm startgin again just to get my arm fixed, but maybe I can try to walk on sometime in the future.

Don't let some arm pain bother you bud, fix it up and see where it can take you.
 
yo im a senior now in HS, ive been playing ball my entire life, soph year i started 2nd base on my Varsity team, and believe me, the older kids will be d-bags, i had to do EVERYTHING BY MYSELF, get the huge water jug by myself set up most of the field for BP, guys were a bunch of assholes. But now that im older, and i realized the older kids all always gunna make the younger guys do shit, u just gotta deal with it for this year. Last year i tore my labrum in my shoulder skiing and missed my entire baseball seaosn as a Junior in HS which is the most important year if u plan on playing in college. Not claiming or anytthing, but i had the rightt tools to play at a pretty good school, i could field throw, hit and i would steal bases like it was my job. Missing last year, and rehabbing made me realize how much i missed playing. This year, im back playing and im starting SS and batting 3rd in the lineup and my team is running shit, tomorrow got our semi final game for the county championship. trust me stick with baseball and just deal with the older guys shit for the rest of the year. U will miss baseball
 
thats a fucking joke. try and take a ball from 30 yards away and hit a spot on a net thats only about 4 inches. and you live in cali, come to upstate new york i bet third string kids here would be allstars at ur school
 
ya dude just tell you dad the situation and explain why you would like to stop baseball for lax and he will understand. and play lax it looks like more fun.
 
i've had this argument in another thread and i'm not going to agrue about it again...all i'll say is you really have no clue what you are talking about. at all. yeah, lax players have endurance and shit on baseball players, i'll cede that...but not much else. you really need to experience both sports at their highest levels of compeitition (within reason, obviously, such as varsity in high school) to be able to say things like you've said. but whatever, i really don't care
 
Um no...we had this stuck up kid from massachussetts who was suposively "so good" at lacrosse. As in lived on lacrosse. We had a kid who started playing 9th grade who was better than him.

You want a real sport try playing a hockey goalie like I used to. Moving on ice skates upon ice is much more difficult than running around on grass. Saving heavy black pucks that are flying at you is much more difficult and intimidating than lacrosse will ever be.

Like I've told Lacrosse kids, its all good if you enjoy playing because it does look like fun. But do not act like its hard shit or that you're hard shit for playing it. That just does not apply to lacrosse. And your little scenario is stupid as fuck, the ball itself is about 3 - 4 inches in diameter.
 
it screwed up mine and im still young...i have had 3 MRI's on it in the last 2 years, im suppose to have surgery but i chose not to and i took up playing more golf now....its much more chill too than baseball

 
this made me chuckle.....ya kinda missed the part about the contact and the leveling people. I played baseball all my life, lacrosse is a better sport, it takes balls to play kuz when ya get hit you dont just have to jog to first base, you gotta get up and get back in the game.......and in lax practice we practice in the rain when we watch the baseball players go in if a drop of rain falls....
 
1. i never said anything about hockey retard because in my opinion it is the hardest sport to play.

2. Mass. isnt New York look at any division one lacrosse team i bet 1/4 of their roster at least is from NY.

3. WHen your 30 yards from the net the holes you have to hit look like 3-4 inches you need to be able to put the ball literally inches from where you aim if you want to score. also if the shot isnt going at least 80mph (for jv and a decent varsity goalie) you wont score. Most kids i play with shoot in the low to mid 90s, which if im correct would make you a pro baseball player if you could throw that hard consistantly.

4. and to baseball players, lacrosse players are tough shit no offense there is an extremely low amount of contact in baseball and compared to baseball lacrosse is physically harder hands down. Some kid in my old school tried talking shit on us saying he could last through a conidition practice during pre season(he played baseball) he lasted an hour out of the 2.5 we had.
 
Its not too difficult to achieve that speed when tossing with a stick rather than with just your arm. It also involves far less skill.

Lacrosse is one of the easier sports to score in, thats why so many games the score goes into double digits. Lacrosse goalie is a pathetic and rather pointless position.
 
you are such a fucking idiot. it boggles my mind. i guarantee you could never thread a pass over a defenders shoulder away from you, all while in a sprint and while being hacked profusely by a metal pole. just because you love baseball and need to be so stuck up doesn't mean you're right.

on another note, west coast kids play lacrosse, obviously there isn't nearly as much depth as back east, but there are some sick teams and individuals for sure.
 
hahaha yeah lacrosse is deff not the easiest sport to score in. I think difficulty wise its soccer, hockey, lacrosse, football, basketball. And saying a goalie is pointless is just fucking ignortant. they are the most badass people i know. Most goalies are covered head to toe in pads, lacrosse they have helmet gloves, a fairly small chest protector and thats it. Id like to see you do what a good lacrosse goalie does. id bet you 50 bucks you wouldnt stand in the way of a shot going 105mph
 
hmmm, this sounds familar.

i cant quite put my finger on it...

oh ya, hockey, this happens all the time and it's not as hard as you claim it to be.
 
alright, well, I've played both sports...select baseball for 4 years and lacrosse for 1..and I think it is safe to say that lacrosse is harder. Not trying to be elitist, but it is the truth. The amount of skills you have to master and use all at once in lax far outweigh the ones in baseball.

as for the thread creator, maybe join and indoor lax league to see if you like it, and then go from there.
 
i DO live in upstate new york and can safely say that lacrosse is an easier sport than baseball. Ive seen kids that used to be mediocre baseball players that couldnt make the baseball team switch right over to the lacrosse team and get a starting spot. It does not take an amazing high endurance athlete to play lacrosse either. just because a kid plays lacrosse doesnt mean he is stronger or faster than a baseball player, some kids are just stronger and faster and some just arent, it has nothing to do with what sport they play
 
This argument is really stupid.....but all the kids that got cut from baseball went to do track or play lacrosse....
 
haha, fuck that, i played lax since 5th grade and started varsity all 4 years of highschool. I could have easily played baseball but lax is way more fun and actually takes athletic ability.

Baseball is for retards who need to feel special about themselves.

btw, NCAA lax final four is on ESPN2 right now
 
Cuba and everywhere in the Carribean, Mexico, Alaska (in the summertime when the sun doesnt go down) Easy there buddy I didnt say either sport was better than the other. I just prefer baseball. Calm down killer.
 
That's why its the only sport where getting a base hit 3 out of ten times is considered doing well. You say anyone can play baseball, and that goes for any sport genius. Being good at a certain sport is a whole different story.

You all can argue all you want about athleticism n shit, but it just goes to show how ignorant you are. If you havent' played a sport seriously and at a high level of competition then you just should shut up, cuz your ignorant remarks just keep digging you a deeper hole of stupidity. They're called sports because you need to be athletic to do WELL at them, bottom line.
 
Did you miss the part where I said I played goalie for my hockey team?

Lacrosse harder than basketball? You must be joking.
 
yes, we can

and for some reason, i live in ny, but my hs does not have a lax team, and i dont know anyone hwo plays lax (other than ppl i met at college)
 
i was really rooting for uva today, but ramel and shamel are the future. duke really didn't play their game and i expect cuse to run over hopkins in the final.
 
Forget the whole "which sport is better than which" shit, stray from opinions of others.

You say you've been playing baseball for a long time. Despite the pain (which could be remedied, look into it), and the losses, it's still a sport that you've enjoyed much of your life. It may not be as fun due to the aformentioned shit and just getting burned out. However, years down the road, you'll be wishing to play it again. It's engraved in ya. You rarely see somebody simply drop a life long passion and without any remorse. You could try playing through high school and perhaps college. If you stop, that's pretty much it, and that'll be that, but I bet there will be some regret later on, and/or a desire to play again. Lax on the other hand would be new to you and the consequences of leaving that sport would be nothing like that if you stop playing baseball; there simply isn't that long connection. As some of said, you might not even get the chance to play much at all.

I'd say stick with it. Get your arm seriously checked out, strenthen up, and go for it. It is one of those sports that's hard to play when you're older and past school, compared to something like tennis, heading to the mountain, etc, especially if you're pretty decent and competitive.

Sorry that wasn't very eloquent, been a looooooong day.
 
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