Is Baseball the most dreadfully boring sport to watch?

[CancerNV]

Other sports like Soccer and Nascar come to mind but I think Baseball takes the cake.

I honestly think the only reason baseball is surviving is because the older generation passes it to the younger generation. Theres no way in hell watching a 3 1/2 hour baseball game with a score of 2 - 0 gets many newcomers by itself.

The only way baseball will survive the next 20 years is by instituting the following changes...

1) Take out 1 outfeilder. This would make it so REAL athlete would have to play the game. Teams would need speed and it would add a whole new layer of depth. Of course scoring would skyrocket so you would need to balance it another way. 2 out per inning?

2) The NBA has a 24 second shot clock. MLB should have a 20 second pitch clock.

3) Basemen should be able to impede the progress of runners. Once again this would screw scoring up badly so you would need to balance it.

4) Move the batter back with a lighter bat. Less home runs and more hits. You would only need to move him back 5 - 10 feet. There is nothing more boring than watching a batter/pitcher go to a full count.

5) 3 strikes your out. However the pitcher only gets 2 balls.

Would any of this fix the MLB or is it already a dying sport?

 

[Triple Threat]

I think watching golf would be worse.

 

[CancerNV]

I think watching golf would be worse.

I think the difference between Golf and Baseball is that Baseball acts like its some high intensity gladiator type sport like football(american) when its clearly not.

Golf gives it to you strait up and doesnt lie about it. Its a sport where a bunch of old prissy rich guys hit a ball while not allowing anyone nearby to make a noise.

 

[CancerNV]

You could make Golf better by having 2 players race through an 18 hole course. The winner of each hole gets some kind of point.

Once again this would make it so real ATHLETES have to play the game.

 

[ZECH]

I love baseball and Nascar. FAR from boring.

 

[GFR]

Yep you have to be a Nathaniel Hawthorne fan to watch this boring sport.........
or at the game with friends so drunk you don't even know who's playing.

 

[CancerNV]

I can also make boxing a better sport. Although boxing right now is AOK by me.

You double the size of the ring. In the middle of the ring you put an tall 4 by 4 foot structure that has soft padding all around it.

Then you add 4 boxers and have either a 2 on 2 or a free for all.

 

[007]

Golf might be the worse, but soccer and baseball are only good when you really are rooting for a team.

 

[lnvanry]

Golf might be the worse, but soccer and baseball are only good when you really are rooting for a team.

007 maybe the reason why you do not understand baseball is the same reason why you put a crest over the red, white, and blue

 

[Dale Mabry]

Baseball is so boring, but I like playing it. Although I find stuff wrong with most sports, ie. the faggots in basketball who drop to the ground when barely brushed up against, the NFLs pussification by not allowing contact between a receiver and cornerback, etc...

I think most sports would be more entertaining with the addition of beer and fire. Like in baseball, you could set the ball on fire and make it so that a player gets a few thousand volt jolt for every error they make.

 

[soxmuscle]

Baseball is my favorite sport. When i'm at my moms, I watch the White Sox on tv and the Red Sox on mlb.tv on my computer, and vice versa when I'm at my dads every night basically.

 

[icanrace]

Golf is much worse IMO.

 

[min0 lee]

Golf makes me impotent.

 

[min0 lee]

I love Baseball, I have a lot of great memories of my father because of the game.
He was pretty good at it too.

 

[Arnold]

I can also make boxing a better sport. Although boxing right now is AOK by me.

You double the size of the ring. In the middle of the ring you put an tall 4 by 4 foot structure that has soft padding all around it.

Then you add 4 boxers and have either a 2 on 2 or a free for all.

yes, baseball is boring, I do not understand why people like to watch it.

boxing sucks too, Ultimate Fighting is MUCH better.

 

[ihateschoolmt]

yes, baseball is boring, I do not understand why people like to watch it.

boxing sucks too, Ultimate Fighting is MUCH better.

I HATE watching baseball. so uneventful.

 

[GFR]

yes, baseball is boring, I do not understand why people like to watch it.

boxing sucks too, Ultimate Fighting is MUCH better.

 

[P-funk]

baseball is really great. I love it. The thing that I love the most about it is the un-rehearsed drama that unfolds. In football or basketball there are plays that can be run (2min drill, plays when you are down by 2 points with 10sec left etc..). These are things that can be practiced and worked out. With baseball that isn't there. No one can plan out a walk off homerun in the bottom of the 9th or a perfect game or a grand slam to come from behind and win. It makes it exciting in my opinion.

 

[boilermaker]

baseball is really great. I love it. The thing that I love the most about it is the un-rehearsed drama that unfolds. In football or basketball there are plays that can be run (2min drill, plays when you are down by 2 points with 10sec left etc..). These are things that can be practiced and worked out. With baseball that isn't there. No one can plan out a walk off homerun in the bottom of the 9th or a perfect game or a grand slam to come from behind and win. It makes it exciting in my opinion.

Enter Albert Pujols

 

[soxmuscle]

Is baseball exciting, psh. Albert Pujols putting on his best David Ortiz impression right there. I just hope people realize how important that David Eckstein hit was. He's the real hero of tonights game.

 

[lnvanry]

Or how important Edmonds walk was too...He didn't swing at some close pitches.

 

[tucker01]

Or how important that Homerun Pujols hit

 

[Decker]

Other sports like Soccer and Nascar come to mind but I think Baseball takes the cake.

It's not even close.....Auto racing is the winner....a fine anesthetic. I think watching traffic is more interesting.

 

[P-funk]

It's not even close.....Auto racing is the winner....a fine anesthetic. I think watching traffic is more interesting.

car racing is in general boring to me but if I had to watch I wouldn't watch Nascar. There is nothing more boring then seeing a race of only right turns. At least indy car has interesting courses.

 

[Dale Mabry]

car racing is in general boring to me but if I had to watch I wouldn't watch Nascar. There is nothing more boring then seeing a race of only right turns. At least indy car has interesting courses.

But it can't be rehearsed, just like baseball.

 

[min0 lee]

heavy weight boxing is dead, it died when when Don King took over. It became interesting again when a young Tyson was kicking ass. He became a bum and the heav wieght division went down also.
The lighter wieght fight are ok but nothing special.

I long for the days of fighters like Ali, Foreman, Hagler, Frazier, Duran, sugar ray.....it says alot when you have an old man like Foreman beating up todays boxers.

 

[min0 lee]

It's not even close.....Auto racing is the winner....a fine anesthetic. I think watching traffic is more interesting.

I prefer bumper car racing myself but to each his own.

 

[soxmuscle]

Or how important Edmonds walk was too...He didn't swing at some close pitches.

It seemed like lidge pitched around him to face the righty for the match-up. it's too bad that righty was the best hitter in baseball.

 

[King Silverback]

It seemed like lidge pitched around him to face the righty for the match-up. it's too bad that righty was the best hitter in baseball.

Here's hoping my Cardinals can pull it out!!!

 

[ZECH]

car racing is in general boring to me but if I had to watch I wouldn't watch Nascar. There is nothing more boring then seeing a race of only right turns. At least indy car has interesting courses.

LMAO! Look at the Charlotte race last Saturday night. The levigation of the track made the grip so great, they were 5mph faster, which is huge. The friction on the tires made the tires heat so high they exploded at 30 laps. When the drivers reached 20 laps they tightened the belts and held on. Not safe for the drivers by any means, but it was exciting. And the tires they were using, was the same compound they use at Talledaga, (very hard). Each team was playing a game between the setup they had, vs. trying to change the setup and air pressure to accomodate the new conditions. Some were sucessful and many were not.