MLB to ban home-plate collisions....

Baseball is
boring
as
hell.
One step above watching golf.

 

I'll go watch little league, maybe some hs ball.

+1

http://www.fieldofschemes.com/

 

Those of you who call baseball boring have never been to an NFL game. Let me give the the typical schedule of events:

1. Kickoff!
2. Stand around five minutes.
3. Three yards and a cloud of dust x 3.
4. Punt!
5. Stand around five minutes.
6. One play.
7. TV Time out. Stand around five minutes.
8. Two more plays.
9. Punt.
10 Stand around for five minutes.

You don't notice it watching on TV, but it's fucking terrible in person. God forbid someone scores a TD. Then it's Touchdown. Stand around for five minutes. After point. Stand around for five minutes. Kick off. Stand around for five minutes.

Now in baseball, a guy hits a home run. The pitcher is traumatized, but 20 seconds later he's gotta throw to the next batter.

 

Late eighties through mid nineties I managed/played on a men's softball team. Super competitive and tons of fun. Played catcher at the time. Had a runner (rather large individual) coming at me from third base and an out-fielder fire the ball back to me. Would have been a last second tag. Had my left leg stretched out and left foot on the bag as not to be in the base line, caught the ball and as I was swinging my left arm to tag the runner out he deliberately went off base line and rolled me like a bowling ball. Damn that hurt! But it was great to see every one of my guys hauling ass out of the dug out and nail the runner and dive into a brawl with the other team.

The umpire didn't eject the batter/runner and there were no reprimands. Pissed us off so when the game went back into play we picked up the pace and slaughtered the opposing team. It was awesome

 

I played softball in Germany when I was in the Army. A player ran our catcher over.

A few months later, that player found out our catcher handled all the new assignments for the division. He did not get assigned to any of the bases he asked for.

 

Some of the most competitive ball I ever played was church league softball.

Who knew?

 

not much difference between the two sports (unscientifically speaking):

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703843804575534102219239786

 

Sing in the boys choir also?

 

Yea man, I still stand by me assessment.

I've played sports and actually been around the world playing so I stand by me statement.

I am not saying Baseball isnt hard and that the payers aren't athletes, but in the world of competitive sports, its by far the easiest and least physically demanding.

Lets compare with Football, Soccer, Basketball, Hockey.

All the other sports, every player on the field is CONSTANTLY moving.
Every player has the potential to make a play and must be prepared.

Baseball, on the other hand, other than pitcher and catcher, 90% of the (active) players are not in the play.

Then you talk about the 60 yard sprint?? LOL they sprint then get to go take a long ass break in the dugout.

Soccer players sprint for 45 minutes and the field is 100 yards long.
Football runningbacks sprint into a pack of really badass mean guys who want to rip their heads off.
Basketball players run back and forth, jump up and down, etc.

Face facts, Baseball is the least athletic mainstream sport there is other than (golf)

 

Ah, but you're forgetting that everyone of those players (with a small American League exception) has to be able to hit the ball. That's no small feat.

You don't see a 95 mph fastball. You watch the release and try to time it and anticipate the location. Every baseball player has extremely fast hands. If you don't, you don't make it. Not even at the high school level. There's a real talent to it. It may be more "thinking" than physical exertion, but it's damn well impressive. But if athleticism has little to do with baseball, why do those players who took the PEDs rack up such impressive numbers?

 

That is the number one reason I chose to play goalie.

 

Wrong. Just shows you've never played it on a competitive level beyond High School. Every position is doing something on every play. Whether backing up a throw back, moving to fake the batter out, backing up a play at another position, etc etc. It's pretty active. Both of my knees and my shoulder can attest to that. As active as football or soccer? No, but they're still athletes that take a beating.


I'm not sure how this rule even makes sense, since it's just enforcing a rule already in place. As a runner, you are not allowed to try and knock the ball out of the glove of a player blocking the base. (Player MUST have the ball to block the base or he will be called for interference) You can try to slide into the base and if the player is blocking it, what happens happens. But for some reason, home plate has always been the exception in the Pro's (not in any other level though, colliding with the catcher is reason for ejection). If you did the same thing to a shortstop on a play at 2nd, the runner would be tossed from the game.

 

I knew you'd be around this thread sooner or later.

I still haven't forgiven you for the ALDS.

 

This is how I read that and I immediately wanted more INFO.

Then I re-read it again and decided, it's still funny

 

Oh, Robby, if you could've seen our Facebook pages during the baseball season and toward the end, it would've sent you laughing on the floor. Good stuff.

 

baseball is a non contact sport and i agree with banning home plate collisions. slides into home plate should be normal slides. feet first. if the catches wishes to block the plate, risk getting spiked. none of this shoulder to shoulder trying to plow him over crap

 

Probably already said in the previous three pages that I didn't read, but welcome to the new face of sports from a generation that had everyone get a medal and no one kept score. We can't have anyone getting hurt in sports, because that's bad m'kay. We can't have linebackers breath hard on QB's, because they may get upset.

Let's give them skirts.

 

Fixed it for you.

 

Afuckingmen brother!! Just this season I've seen two guys go to the bench after a puck in the mouth and pull their own tooth out and keep playing. These guys are tough as nails!!!