RANT : Baseball is a lame sport with phony athletes

I'm no longer a baseball fan anymore. First because our team is not competitive. Secondly I've grown up since 92/93. I don't get how these winos get paid so much money to swing a darn stick at a ball and run around a baseball diamond. Can you honestly tell me that these players actually work up a sweat during the game? How much work do they actually do?? The pitcher is the MVP and he works the hardest of the bunch. Backcatchers I'd put second because the enormous stress they put on their knees after years and years of crouching. Yes you need to have great hand eye coordination to hit a 95mph fastball but that doesn't justify a player being paid 25 million dollars a year. What other sport in the world would you find over sized men (ie Cecil Fielder, Manny Ramierz, Kirby Puckett etc) other than sumo wrestling? I've played baseball and it's a great game to play, when you're actually playing. How often are you playing?? You wait 2 innings before you get to hit. When you're on the field you stand there waiting for a ball to be hit towards you. You take the couple of steps, throw the ball and that's the exercise you get. The other 80% of the time you don't do a damn thing. The most work I see these guys do is the pre-game work out. You see a group of guys that might jog around for a bit and throw the ball around. Yippie!!! These guys are the least active among any professional sports and yet they get paid so much money. The worst part to is our neighbours down south have the gull to say that Baseball is the greatest game in the world. I can understand during post season the games could be exciting to watch. Every pitch you're into it so it's different from watching the NHL where there's a constant flow to the game. This sport isn't for everyone I understand that but for someone to tell me how Baseball is a better sport than hockey, basketball, football is beyond me. Only in America can you glorify a sport where each person puts in like 10 minutes of actually play time and say it's the greatest past time.

There is no way of convincing me that baseball players are real athletes. Sure Derek Jeter, A-Rod, Carlos Beltran are great baseball players I would never dispute that. I dare any mofo out there to even try convincing me that these guys deserve to be paid the amount of money they make for the amount of work they actually put forth day in and day out.

That's my rant for today.

Heading home to play some vids.

How does how much they were paid have anything to do for how much you like it? If they are paid less, will you enjoy it more? I don't think so.

If you don't like it, you don't like it.

You do know there's still Hockey right?
The reason for strike - salary

At least I liked the ALCS Division Title series (Red Sox vs. Yankees 0-3 comeback)
World Series isn't so exciting except Game 1

There's NBA too........ look at Lebron Jame's "commercial" deal @@

Only in America can you glorify a sport where each person puts in like 10 minutes of actually play time and say it's the greatest past time.

Are you referring to Latin America? Granted, it's not as popular as futbol, but many kids down south (south of US, that is) love baseball. I hear it's also popular in Japan and South Korea. Does your rant on the US apply to them as well?

Seriously, it's not the most athletic sport, but some of the best baseball players were very athletic (e.g. Mays). Plus, most sports writers agree that hitting a major league pitcher is one of the hardest skills in sports.

Finally, thanks to the strikes, baseball trails football (and maybe basketball) in popularity. Thus, very few people in the US call it the greatest sport.

Originally Posted by jalaram

Finally, thanks to the strikes, baseball trails football (and maybe basketball) in popularity. Thus, very few people in the US call it the greatest sport.

With or without the strike, hockey is the 4th sport in US. Baseball is #3. Football and basketball are sharing #1 and #2 depends on the year.

It's called supply and demand. If everyone could hit or throw a 90mph slider then baseball players would be paid minimum wage.

If salaries concern you so much, why don't you go watch the minor leagues? Those guys get don't get paid that much at all.

Originally Posted by gman

With or without the strike, hockey is the 4th sport in US. Baseball is #3. Football and basketball are sharing #1 and #2 depends on the year.

thought NASCAR was number four with hockey falling further behind?

anyway the only thing lame about baseball is the DH.

usually filled in by over the hill fat players who do not have it anymore to play a regular position.

Originally Posted by Montague

thought NASCAR was number four with hockey falling further behind?.

That's what I've heard as well.

Originally Posted by Montague

anyway the only thing lame about baseball is the DH.

usually filled in by over the hill fat players who do not have it anymore to play a regular position.

I hate the DH as much as anyone, but I still have a lot of respect for Rod Carew and Edgar Martinez.

Originally Posted by gman

With or without the strike, hockey is the 4th sport in US. Baseball is #3. Football and basketball are sharing #1 and #2 depends on the year.

Well, even before the baseball strike, I think football was still the #1 sport (for good reason I might add ).

And isnt bowling more popular than hockey?

Meh, it is simply all opinion. One person may hate baseball the other love it. Golf is my number 1 sport...

Isn't Nascar either the second or third most popular "sport" in the US?? Also, I think Arena Football is ahead of the NHL in the USA.

The average american is a dumb%$&

you shouldn't have called baseball a sport. Its more a way to get a good nap.
Or to check out the racks and camel toe on some of the cheerleaders and player wives and gf.

and for those that put hockey (NHL) up in the top 10 of viewing in the States, well your way off.
Sometime last year in the news a anchor stated the NHL had numbers that places the viewership at around the top 40s for watched events, even behind *sigh* golf (PGA and double *sigh* LPGA) another non sport.

A lot of you forgot that NCAA football and NCAA basketball get way more viewership than the NHL

The only thing baseball is good for is to fall asleep to on a lazy Sat or Sunday afternoon nap.....knocks me out every time.

actually baseball is good since there is no hockey now, but world series over, now what? only basketball on...and GOLF all year round on tv hehe...