For soccer fans, it’s time we take on the giant pink elephant in the room. Yes, maybe football and basketball fans can continue to claim supremacy on the excitement scale, but not baseball. No longer can we allow baseball fans to make such claims. No matter how often SportsCenter tries to shove another boring Yanks/Red Sox series down our throats, baseball is as exciting as, well, baseball.
The following are my 10 reasons why soccer is better than baseball. Simply, because soccer does NOT have:
1. Walks to the mound. Can’t they at least jog? Or how about limit the walks to when they will actually make a pitching change? I’m sure there are plenty of signs to convey “what the $%@# are you doing out there?”
2. Pitch counts. Imagine a soccer coach telling a player that he needs to come out because he has kicked the ball more than his allowed 50 times threshold. Can you say micromanaging.
3. A 7th inning stretch. Talk about the ultimate concession. Hey, fans, we know the sport gives you very little reason to get excited during the game, let alone stand up, so we’ll give you some time to stretch those legs. Not even churches have resorted to such concessions during mass.
4. Fat Guys (Babe Ruth, Cecil Fielder, David Wells, Jon Kruck, etc.) masquerading as “athletes”.
5. Really Old Guys (Satchel Paige, Phil Niekro, Julio Cruz, Minnie Minoso, etc.) still competing at the highest level.
6. Players eating during games. Seriously, the action can’t be all that scintillating if you have time for grub while “playing”. Hell, the players get to wear shades while on the field.
7. Excruciatingly long games. This year’s all-star game was 9 minutes shy of 5 hours. Lots of paint dried during that time. I suppose that is why the 7th inning stretch is necessary.
8. Useless statistics. No lie, the other day I heard an announcer claim that a 2nd baseman was tied for 3rd place among active 2nd basemen for most homeruns in their first 3 years in the majors. Come again?!
9. Fans keeping score at home. Would like to meet the Homer that is actually doing this. Suppose it’s the same person buying all of those stamps and coins on eBay.
10. Managers dressing up like the players. Did Tommy Lasorda really need to wear a uniform and cleats? I suppose he needed at least the cleats for those long walks to the mound.
And if you’re still not convinced, just listen to the late George Carlin explain why baseball is so thrilling. Even though his comparisons are with the other football, the knock on baseball remains the same.
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This is bogus I will dispute every one of these reason’s..
1. So pitchers walk to the mound… Its the only time that they get to rest, in soccer more than half the team walks while the game is in play.
2.A pitch count is to keep a player from hurting his arm. A pitcher puts more stress on his arm in one inning than a soccer player puts on his body in a whole game.
3.The 7th inning stretch is a very important part of baseball. The fans are so focused on the game that they dont have time to go get a drink. That is why the 7th inning stretch was invented. And to sing “take me out to the ballgame” Does soccer have its own song?
4.Those “fat guys” are some of the most talented men on the planet. I would bet $1000000 ($1 million) that your so called athlete or soccer player couldnt hit a ball half as far as these men could.
5. So what if there old. They are still the best of their kind. Why do sports have to be reserved for young people?
6. What do players get to eat? Sunflower seeds? It’s not our fault we can multitask.
7. Your gonna use the all star game as an example? That is not an everyday game. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, In 2004, the average length of a National League game was 2:47:20, compared to 2:46:55 in the American League. There you go!
8. Those statistics are important. It shows how a player ranks among his counterparts. and it shows that he has produced better over his first three years than other ppl are.
9. Your telling me that there isn’t anyone out there who sits at at home with their soccer jerzey on and watches a soccer game. The only reason the soccer fans dont keep score is cause there’s nothing to write down. O there’s a goal. Now I can put my pen and paper down cause nothing else will happen the rest of the game.
10. And mangers wearing uniforms is part of team unity. So what if they look bad, they love the game and are into it. Would you like it better if they walked out to the mound in a shirt and tie?
dude your argument is bogus. I would like to see fat ass Prince Fielder play a soccer game and I could homer off ur sorry ass. They need pitch counts cause their pussies. Baseball games are so boring that people get up to get drinks during the game. 7th inning stretch is saying well lets decide if we should stay at this dumb game or go home and do something productive.
Fake injuries.
0-0 ties. Nuf said.
Baseball has room for everybody. A fat, slow guy can pitch or play first. In soccer, there’s only one position for slow runners.
Substitution. What’s the point of carrying 22 players if you can only use three in a game? Baseball makes relief pitchers and pinch-hitters part of the drama.
The clock in soccer is silly. The tactics used to delay the game, like fake injuries, substitutions and long kicks into the stands, turn the game into an 80-minute contest.
Baseball is a game of small battles with definite outcomes. There’s pitcher vs. hitter, runner vs. base-stealer, hitter vs. defense. Every play has a winner, and adds to or takes away from the possibility of getting a run. Soccer is thousands of indefinable actions whose implications aren’t clear. Score!
In soccer, you can hide by passing or avoid the ball. In baseball, if you go 0-for-4, everybody will know.
Baseball is a sunny day in the bleachers with your kids. Soccer is a rainy night, standing up, with other people’s kids.
Penalties are too important in soccer. A ref’s mistake can pick the winner. Baseball umpires make hundreds of calls per game. Their mistakes even out. They rarely decide who wins. No foul or offside rule on game-winning homeruns.
It ain’t over till it’s over. In baseball, teams can win after trailing at the penultimate point. In soccer, teams never win when trailing by three scores in the 88th minute.
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