Immovable Object vs. Unstoppable Force: Exacerbating The Human Condition
Friday, October 24, 2008
Why Care About The World Series?
I guarentee that this hit from the Boston-Vancouver game is way more interesting than Game 2 of the Fall Classic. Or all the series games. Baseball sucks, hockey rules. That is all.
I'm in the mood to argue. I know its futile, thinking I'm gonna make you respect baseball. But I;m more curious as to why you would even compare such different sports? It would be fairer and more relevant to compare football (both American and everyone elses) to hockey, or even basketball to hockey, the battlefield-like sports where you're defending a goal and all the players are out there on the field. Baseball, as far as I know, is really only like one other sport, cricket. Why all the hating on baseball? Its more subtle, I would argue more mental, and less constantly active/intense and therefor more dynamic overall (when action happens, its big, when juxtaposed against the "boring" times -- versus the constant action of hockey). Its so beautiful in its design, utterly unique compared to hockey's being so like football/soccer/basketball/ultimate frisbee/water polo/lacrosse... There's the tension-drenched, gunslinger motif of the pitcher versus the batter. In that sense we might compare baseball to tennis or even martial arts or fencing, but not hockey. And how rad is it that the Devil Rays went from worst team in MLB last year to best this year? Way rad.
Actually, you make valid points - the sports are certainly unlike each other and have dynamically different aims and processes. But I look at it like Lloyd Dobbler - "sport of the future" (even though he was referring to kickboxing). Not that the centuries old game of diamond bags hasn't changed over time, it's just an analog beat in a digital song, if you catch my drift.
Also, mine beloved is so oft maligned by the dickbags who pray at the altar of that and the other big two sports, that I'm happy to sling mud back in defense. And they are the same typical morons who find fantasy sports exciting. There may be fantasy pucks too, but as high-octane as hockey is compared to the others, so is the gap of enjoyability between the real and the paper. And likely why there is less need to fantasize about the sport and just straight enjoy it.
I have said how I have enjoyed those others in the past (and still can on occasion), but like tastes that mature and the lack of greatness some things have when years removed, the natural progress has brought me to a sport that is lively and consistant in what it offers - peak sportsmanship and athleticism.
Kudos to the "Bro" Rays for their worst-to-first move, as is always a fine tale - much like the bottom feeding Penguins who were a shit team and became a Stanley Cup challenger, and woe for our lack of local representation. But regarding the big four national leagues, I am concerned with only one.
And when are you going tro come to some games with me?
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I'm in the mood to argue. I know its futile, thinking I'm gonna make you respect baseball. But I;m more curious as to why you would even compare such different sports? It would be fairer and more relevant to compare football (both American and everyone elses) to hockey, or even basketball to hockey, the battlefield-like sports where you're defending a goal and all the players are out there on the field. Baseball, as far as I know, is really only like one other sport, cricket. Why all the hating on baseball? Its more subtle, I would argue more mental, and less constantly active/intense and therefor more dynamic overall (when action happens, its big, when juxtaposed against the "boring" times -- versus the constant action of hockey). Its so beautiful in its design, utterly unique compared to hockey's being so like football/soccer/basketball/ultimate frisbee/water polo/lacrosse...
There's the tension-drenched, gunslinger motif of the pitcher versus the batter. In that sense we might compare baseball to tennis or even martial arts or fencing, but not hockey. And how rad is it that the Devil Rays went from worst team in MLB last year to best this year? Way rad.
Alright then, let's tango!
Actually, you make valid points - the sports are certainly unlike each other and have dynamically different aims and processes. But I look at it like Lloyd Dobbler - "sport of the future" (even though he was referring to kickboxing). Not that the centuries old game of diamond bags hasn't changed over time, it's just an analog beat in a digital song, if you catch my drift.
Also, mine beloved is so oft maligned by the dickbags who pray at the altar of that and the other big two sports, that I'm happy to sling mud back in defense. And they are the same typical morons who find fantasy sports exciting. There may be fantasy pucks too, but as high-octane as hockey is compared to the others, so is the gap of enjoyability between the real and the paper. And likely why there is less need to fantasize about the sport and just straight enjoy it.
I have said how I have enjoyed those others in the past (and still can on occasion), but like tastes that mature and the lack of greatness some things have when years removed, the natural progress has brought me to a sport that is lively and consistant in what it offers - peak sportsmanship and athleticism.
Kudos to the "Bro" Rays for their worst-to-first move, as is always a fine tale - much like the bottom feeding Penguins who were a shit team and became a Stanley Cup challenger, and woe for our lack of local representation. But regarding the big four national leagues, I am concerned with only one.
And when are you going tro come to some games with me?
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