How baseball differs from the other 3 major sports
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Now that BB season has begun thought I'd list some differences. What can you come up with? Mine-1)Defense has the ball.2)Not governed by a clock.3)Game can be called cause of rain.4)Team has a little house(dugout)to reside in.5)BB leader has a mgr. other 3 sports are coaches.6)BB mgrs. wear a uniform,other sports coaches wear suits/regular clothes.7)Injured/non able to play BB players suit up and sit in dugout(this one has always mystified me),other injured sports players wear regular clothes.Like basketball, the injured player sometimes even wears a suit.Did I miss any?
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To quote George Carlin:
Now Baseball and Football are different from one another in other kind of interesting ways I think. First of all, Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game. Football is a 20th century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond in the park, the Baseball Park. Football is played on a grid iron in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying. In Football, you wear a helmet. In Baseball, you wear a cap. Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Baseball is concerned with ups. Who’s up? Are you up? I’m not up. He is up. In Football, the specialist comes in to kick. In Baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve someone. In Football, you receive a penalty. In Baseball, you make an error. Whoops!
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, blocking, piling on, late hitting, unnecessary roughness and personal fouls. Baseball has the sacrifice. Football is played in any kind of weather, rain, sleet, snow, hail, mud, can’t read the numbers on the field, can’t read the yard markers, can’t read the players numbers, the struggle will continue.
In Baseball, if it rains, we don’t come out to play. “I can’t come out to play. It’s raining out.” Baseball has a 7th inning stretch. Football has the two minute warning. Baseball has no time limit. We don’t know when it’s gonna end. We might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed and it will end even if we have to go to sudden death. In Baseball, during the game in the stands, there is kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there’s not that much unpleasantness. In Football, in the stands, during the game you can be sure that at least 27 times you are perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being, preferably a stranger.
And finally the objectives of the two games are totally different. In Football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general. To be on target with his aerial assault riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing his aerial assault with a sustained ground attack, which punches holes in the forward wall of the enemies’ defensive line. (applause) In Baseball, the object is to go home, and to be safe. I hope I’ll be safe at home, safe at home.
<< <i>Now Baseball and Football are different from one another in other kind of interesting ways I think. First of all, Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game. Football is a 20th century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond in the park, the Baseball Park. Football is played on a grid iron in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying. In Football, you wear a helmet. In Baseball, you wear a cap. Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Baseball is concerned with ups. Who’s up? Are you up? I’m not up. He is up. In Football, the specialist comes in to kick. In Baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve someone. In Football, you receive a penalty. In Baseball, you make an error. Whoops!
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, blocking, piling on, late hitting, unnecessary roughness and personal fouls. Baseball has the sacrifice. Football is played in any kind of weather, rain, sleet, snow, hail, mud, can’t read the numbers on the field, can’t read the yard markers, can’t read the players numbers, the struggle will continue.
To quote George Carlin:
In Baseball, if it rains, we don’t come out to play. “I can’t come out to play. It’s raining out.” Baseball has a 7th inning stretch. Football has the two minute warning. Baseball has no time limit. We don’t know when it’s gonna end. We might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed and it will end even if we have to go to sudden death. In Baseball, during the game in the stands, there is kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there’s not that much unpleasantness. In Football, in the stands, during the game you can be sure that at least 27 times you are perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being, preferably a stranger.
And finally the objectives of the two games are totally different. In Football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general. To be on target with his aerial assault riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing his aerial assault with a sustained ground attack, which punches holes in the forward wall of the enemies’ defensive line. (applause) In Baseball, the object is to go home, and to be safe. I hope I’ll be safe at home, safe at home. >>
Love the george carlin reference!
Baseball games are paused to allow some players (pitchers) to warm up on the field
Baseball teams have "unlimited" timeouts
Baseball has records that people know (what percentage of NBA fans know exactly how many points Kareem scored? 1%, maybe?)
Essentially, a baseball game is simply a series of one-on-one confrontations between the pitcher and batter.
Steve
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<< <i>baseball has an agonizingly long season which challenges the duration of an average human pregnancy and causes a similar amount of stomach discomfort. >>
Especially when the over/under on your local team's wins is at 55.
A player can walk every time he is on offense and will not get yelled at by his coach/manager.
Doug
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Topps/OPC Hockey 1966-Present base sets
Far more books are printed about baseball every year than any other sport.
In baseball, once you are taken out of the lineup (batting), you can't go back in. The other three sports you can.
<< <i>In baseball, once you are taken out of the lineup (batting), you can't go back in. The other three sports you can. >>
Very good! I like this one.
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
<< <i>Irregular shaped playing surface - both dimension-ally (distances to the fences) and physically (pitching mound). >>
These used to apply to hockey, too.
Meaning, most games are have little meaning until your magic number comes up.
2. Baseball is more boring as I grow older.
3. More spitting.
4. Flip your bat the wrong way and expect a high hard one inside on your next trip to the plate.
5. Pete Rose is still banned. Meanwhile, the cheating owners all knew about steroid use but let it go for years because
it made them millions of dollars by duping stupid, loyal, hard core fans.
<< <i>1. In Baseball, a team can lose 30 games in a row and it doesn't matter. They can get hot and still make the playoffs.
Meaning, most games are have little meaning until your magic number comes up.
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how is that different from any other sport? a nfl football team can lose seven straight and still make the playoffs. thats 44percent of their season.
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
in football, you're taught to slide because it's strategically wise to do so, as it will allow you to avoid being knocked out.
<< <i>In baseball, unless it's been prohibited for a while, forgive me, you can smoke on the bench. >>
welcome to the 1980's
<< <i>Cardio is optional for baseball players. >>
i'll put mike trout and adam jones up% there with any athelte from any sport