Reply #77: It's boring because it's too cerebral and stacato [View All]

I think baseball is a very fun game to play, but to watch...it's too slow. I prefer faster action, and more physicality. I think American Football is good, though that too has become far too drawn out. Basketball has made scoring so repetitive that it almost becomes meaningless. Soccer has made scoring so difficult, that it gives each goal too much importance.

Hockey is as close to perfection for me. It's fast, perhaps the fastest game. The slapshots are as fast as fastballs, and the skaters fly up and down the ice faster than anyone can run. It's physical, with checks, and shoving, and battling. It's got touch and skill, with puckhandling and passing at speed, deft hand work from goalies and forwards maneuvering to bat down 90 mph pucks into a corner of the goal. It's got set strategy in the power plays, and it has improvisational strategy and teamplay the rest. There are stoppages but usually less than 30 seconds to get the next faceoff, and usually only one longer tv break in each period. Hockey has it all.

Baseball is missing the speed. It has it in bursts, but most of the time it's very still. It occasionaly has some physicality when someone is charging home and takes out the catcher, but for the most part nobody touches each other. It's got touch and skill, but again, most of the time they're just standing around. It's got tons of strategy, but most of it is set, and good teams are ones that know that if X happens with Y on Z base then throw to A but only if B is not heading towards base C, in which case he should throw to D, wait...WHY IS HE THROWING TO E! NO!. Then there are stoppages almost constantly. Every minute there is maybe 10 seconds of action in baseball.

That's why it's boring to me.