Reply #26: There are no nuances to baseball [View All]

That's the great mythology and always embraced like the meaning of life by baseball supporters. So I'm hardly surprised it's already been trumpeted here.

Football is an incredibly complicated sport. So many permutations with physical contact and the success or failure of the play dependent on one-on-one matchups all over the field. You can literally watch a play over and over and consistently find something, a vital factor, that you missed every time previously. The line play in particular is fascinating, huge skilled athletes trying to brutally maul each other with also a level of finesse and strategy.

Baseball has nothing of the sort. Even the aspects that are touted as nuances, like pitching strategy within an at bat or to the same batter over the course of a game or season, are straight forward and blase. Wow, the fielders shift based on batter or situation. So complicated.

I never liked baseball but when my job required me to chart the stats and watch the damn games I knew all the players and the tendencies. It was simpleton to the point of sominex. All the sportsbook regulars here knew the same things I did, the exact so-called nuances. Predicting how they would pitch to the batter based on situation and who was up next. Could not have been more of a daily routine.

In those sportsbooks during football season, all eyes are on the football and if you mention a great seal block by the tight end there is stone silence, no clue what you are talking about.