Thursday, February 25, 2010
The never ending story....
Unfortunately the month of April is approaching which means that Baseball is beginning. And for me this is very sad. See to me baseball is a lot like the never ending story. Baseball will start in april and it wont be over until October. Why? Why does baseball have to be played 8 out of the 12 months. Why do they have to play 14 billion games in a year( its really only 162 but close enough). Now don't get me wrong, I love all sports. But at times I disagree with sports. This is where football has it all figured out. Once you reach the playoffs you get one shot to win and this adds something to every game. Not in baseball though, in baseball you get 7 games to prove you should move on. And the thing that bothers me most of all is that it is the only sport that supports mediocrity. I had never really thought about it until I was watching the movie Martian Child. In the movie the main character is teaching his adopted son how to play baseball and he says the line, "if you hit 3 out of every 10 balls you are a star, but if you do just a little bit better than that just a little bit... than you are a superstar." REALLY????? Why in the world would that make you a superstar and why should you get a million dollars to do so. If you are good 30% of the time you are great. REALLY? I wish it was that way in school. If I got a 30% on a test I would be on the verge of failing a class. But not in baseball. I understand that to many people baseball is still americas sport but I would much rather watch a sport where being mediocre is not the goal.
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See your point but I will respectfully disagree with parts of your blog. There are other sports that have a season as long as baseball if not more. For example, why is the NBA season so long...it starts around Halloween and ends around Father's Day, golf and tennis are basically year round sports and NASCAR lasts for 10 months out of the 12. Furthermore, in football you can't have best of game series because their bodies physically can't handle it...a week in between games is bad enough on them. Baseball is the oldest professional sport played today. It is rich in traditions that other sports don't have. The game of baseball is one that takes much preparation and strategy. When batting, you have to determine if the ball coming at you 90+ mph is a slider, fastpitch, curve ball, sinker, change up or knuckle ball all in a blink of an eye. The batter has to have amazing hand-eye coordination and reaction time unlike any other sport. If the batter misses the ball by just a few inches or centimeters, the result can be a strike, ground ball or fly. I think that mediocre is not the goal. It is just that being able to play the game of baseball is a skill that is hard to master. Yes, you do fail 70% of the time. I think that this shows that being a good hitter and baseball player takes much talent and skill that can not be matched by any other sport. Like you, I am an avid sports fan; however, I will watch sports no matter how long the season. Go St. Louis Cardinals!!!
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