Baseball sucks anyone else agree?

Wait, did you and I see two different episodes? Because the episode of Ultimate Fighter I saw was a bunch of overweight, out of shape dudes rolling around on the ground looking completely unrefined.

Not saying that's what MMA is but that's the episode I remember. I'm not really in to MMA but my friend who is who I watched it with even said the fought terribly. It was basically a wrestling match with intermittent punches.

And I really doubt MMA fighters would run circles around football players. Adrian Peterson is practically Jesus.
 
Yeah we're thinking of the same episode. I think I missed the first part thought.

And that fight was awful. That's pretty much what I was basing the theme of the episode off of. Which was too much of a generalization I guess.

And just because the training is different doesn't mean one is better than the other. I'm sure an MMA fighter would be absolutely dogging it after a while at a professional futbol practice.

 
the best sports to watch are hockey, football, and college basketball(not nba). i like watching world soccer to. any one else find lacrosse boring to watch.(i play lacrosse to, love playing but not watching)
 
the only thing to do at baseball games is drink and eat brats.... so baseball = good. even though it bores me to death
 
brats better not bore you to death! at least, not home made ones... they are like a mini mouth orgasm of greatness.
 
MMA fighters aren't going to be as fast or strong as football players but they have crazy endurance.

They play different sports so the focus when training is different. If football was non stop then no doubt football players would train to have more endurance than they do, its just the training is more geared towards strength and speed in short bursts since that's what the sport is.
 
MMA fighters are pretty jacked too. they have crazy work outs and there fights are probably the most energy consuming sports.
 
im sure that you get the basic point of the game and all that, 3 outs,3 strikes, 4 balls, 9 innings hit the ball to get you team mates around the bases to score. but aside from that do you really understand the strategy behind the game and really know and understand the game? probably not, maybe you do and you just dont like it, but somehow i doubt it.
 
god damnit, its a different differnt kind of game. Football has 16 games a season, but its because they take a BEATING each game they play.

Baseball isn't like a beating, but the grind 162 games (not including off days, preseason, post season, winter ball leagues, etc) has on a person's body is intense. Every single day those people have to be ready to play to the best of their ability (which is true with every sport), but it is a grind, it is basically EVERYDAY affair, and so much could go wrong or right when you have to play 162 games, which is a virtue in the sport. I like the length of the season, because shit is crazy in June, July, but real contenders emerge in august and some crazy shit hits the fan in september, then a crap shoot in october. It's just a different kind of sport. As I said before, it's not an action sport, but any play can be intense as hell.
 
you totally hit it right on the spot there, yes baseball is not a contact sport (in some ways it can be) but seriously 162 games in a season come on, that takes endurance and mental conditioning as well. Shit this summer I had a 43 game baseball schedule and I was drained as hell from it especially weekends where we had back-to-back games 9 innings is alot of game time, most of the time 3 games a week, now try doing that 9 innings which translates into about 3+ hours for a 162 games with about 4 off days a month playing and traveling weekends and holidays its a long road, and then trying to make the playoffs...damn.
 
i dont think many people who have never played a game of baseball in their life have even a minute comprehension of how difficult a game it is. try hitting a 90mph fastball. sure if you time it and take enough swings you will connect. but then the next pitch is going to be a curve ball and your timing is out the window (unless you actually know what youre doing) dont even get me started as to the right way to throw a baseball. i could go on for days with that. and thats not taking into account pitching.

sure baseball may not require perfection in physical fitness, but its a hell of a lot more draining and difficult than some of NS is giving it credit for.

 
Everything you just said could be said about professional ping-pong. Minus the 90mph fast ball but you get the idea.
 
i played it for almost 16 years, and i still think it sucks. And i was a pitcher, so don't give me that argument. Though i will admit, out of every position and sport i've played, i definitely enjoyed and hated pitching the most just because it was really your ability against the batter's ability. The only thing that even comes close to that is a penalty in soccer playing as a keeper, and even that is mostly just guessing based off very few visual clues.

and i'm sick of baseball players claiming that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing in sports. Here's my logic...if it's so hard, why are so many people able to do it daily in games? Hell, you even go all the way down to 6 year old kids in little league, they're hitting just fine. And don't bother arguing with the speed differences there. A 15mph pitch is to a 6yr old what a 90mph pitch is to a 28 year old major leaguer.
 
Thank you. I played baseball for 12 years but no longer can due to wrist complications. I love the sport so much. I go too around 10 Twins games a year, and can not get enough of it
 
you are absolutly right.I have played baseball my whole life and the amount of dedication and work that you need in baseball far surpasses any other sport. It is also the hardest games to play, to stay mental aware and on your toes is extremely difficult, and those of you who said hitting is easy i can promise have probably never faced a real pitcher in a real game
 
baseball takes no more training and perseverance than any other sport. Can't do something right? Then keep doing it over and over again til you can do it right. I will give you that a lot of it is difficult to learn, but only if you've never been involved with the sport at all in your life.

but no, hitting is not the hardest thing. I've batted against countless real pitchers, and never had any significant problems. It's hard, but no harder than various aspects of other sports.
 
squatting as a catcher for nine solid innings fucking BLOWS! im 6'3" and play catcher and right field when they have the knuckleball catcher in. fuck, it blows, i wake on my days off and my knees creek like a bad floor in a horror movie.
 
there's a lot more skill involved than a lot of you give baseball credit for. hitting a circular object with a cylindrical object is one of the hardest thing to do in any sport, not to mention hitting it well. throwing a nasty curveball that breaks 12+ inches. throwing a ball near 100 mph. throwing a bullet on a dime from right field to home plate more than 300 feet away. the reaction time and visual acutity of these players is redic. you only have 1/4 of a second to decide what kind of pitch is beig thrown, where it is thrown, the speed of said pitch, and finally whether or not your gonna swing. can any of you do that? its less of a physical sport, its based more around the mechanics of everything /rant

baseball is the shit.
 
well yes, but running up and down a field for up to 90 minutes in soccer or rugby isn't that much easier. But yes, the squatting does suck, i had to catch for a few innings over the years and i hated it
 
no brats DO NOT bore me to death. I just know that if i wasnt so distracted having mouth orgasms that the actual game would be boring. I could live off of brats. and beer.
 
not to mention the mental side of baseball. where are you going with the ball once you have it in your glove. who do you back up. people that say half the time you set out there and pick your butt have never played on a competitive winning team before. alsmost every play every player has a job to do. and you have no idea what that play is going to be until the little white ball goes flying through the air to god knows where.

like you said, throwing a ball, just getting it to the correct fielder is not good enough. you need to hit the right spot as well.
 
i never said i don't appreciate baseball players i think its awsome they are amazing at the sport but i just don't find it intresting at all and you might be right that it may be because i don't get how cool a good curveball is or every detail that i don't notice but thats it.
 
i play water polo and thats way harder than baseball(i played baseball for 10 years)

i still enjoy games but ill never play it again except with freinds.

a 45 minute water polo game is way harder than a 3 hour baseball game
 
The only fun part is going to the games and screaming your face off at every little thing that happens. HE THREW THE BALL!!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
 
I hope J.P. Riccardi burns in hell.

And steroids and other perfromance enhancing drugs just ruin the MLB, not baseball. Its funny that people dont realize that probably about 75% of pro athletes dope or have doped. Be it football, basketball or hockey players. The only reason you dont hear about it is because testing is a joke and it would shatter the sport if someone like Kobe or Lebron tested positive.

IMO, These pro leagues should start cleaning up the game, much like pro cycling has done these last few years. Yeah sure, a doping scandal is a horrible thing and it makes people stop watching the sport, but cycling is not dead yet. If anything, its stronger than ever.

Who knows, maybe getting rid of the cheaters will help the sport?

 
im gonna say something that seems really strange and i will get karma raped by this post but whatever. the WWE (yes, fake wrestling) have a better steroid/performance enhancing drug testing policy that some pro sports do. i think the only people that do it more often than them are the UFC and boxing promotions because you have a piss test the day before the fight, and one RIGHT AFTER the fight. the MLB, NFL, and every other professional traditional sport needs to clean up their act.
 
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