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Stabmaster Arson wrote:

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Not including pitchers who don't play every day. What mental stimulation is there in baseball when 50% of the time you are sitting on your **** scratching your balls? The other 40% of the time your are standing on the diamond motionless. The next 5% is spent getting fatter. The balance has you swing a bat and maybe run in a straight line.

Joe wrote:

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Well not that I need to defend the National Pastime, but many books (Baseball Between the Numbers, Moneyball, The Book:Playing the Percentages in Baseball) and many web sites (Baseball Prospectus , thebaseballcube, baseball america) are all devoted to understanding the mental aspect of the game. See baseball is an individual game first, a players performance can be broken down in every way. In other sports, how do we know if an interior guard in football is really any good, for the untrained fans eye it is impossible to tell, with stats in baseball everything is quantifiable. In soccer, say the left winger had 5 shots on goal, and made none, well was he draped each time? Were the shots at bad angles? How do we quantify his performance against other left wingers in the league? Scoring in soccer is a matter of opportunity more than talent and we have no way to measure the players accurately with stats, hence the game has no mental stimulation for the fan, unless you consider getting drunk and disorderly mental stimulation, ironically its much like football that way.

r m kraus wrote:

Well I find that I am not the only person who sees a discrepancy between the announced attendance at a ball game (usually a baseball game) and the actual attendance. According to our local baseball writer, it's standard practice to inflate the attendance, and he says that all teams do it. What a misleading farce. I have been to Akron Aeros games when there were less than a 1,000 people there; next day in the Beacon Journal box score of the game, attendance is stated as 8,589, or such outrageously false number.
RMK Akron