Its a detail game. While some say its slow, I’m watching players on both sides position themselves for constantly changing strategies.
Maybe they just need more black players. /s
Funny, the few times I watched a bit when my dad had a game on, I just saw a constantly scratching and spitting.
Still laugh remember the comments after the Iran hostages came back a someone wanted to offer them lifetime season tickets to some baseball team.
A wag said "Haven't they suffered enough?"
Exactly! Good to see at least one person "gets it". Baseball is a very exciting game, if one understands it.
MLB can get rid of this new challenge rule, however. If an umpire cannot get the calls right consistently, fire them. There is nothing exciting about watching three people "review" the play on a monitor on the sidelines.
+1
Baseball is to most sports what chess is to ping-pong. Baseball requires decisions based on experience and careful thought, not reflexive reaction to outside stimuli.
People - and not just Americans - have been conditioned by TV and computers to expect instantaneous resolution and satisfaction in whatever issue they are involved with at the time. That only happens on tv.
As a child I frequently hitch-hiked 30 miles to watch the local AAA baseball team play. Today I wouldn’t walk across the street to see a championship soccer match. I do not denigrate the skills of the soccer players because they have to be very good to do what they do, but soccer is not in my blood the way baseball is. When I was 19 years old I was approached by a scout for a major league team and invited to spring training camp. Three days later, Uncle Sam “invited” me to his training camp and by the time I finished my military career baseball was out of the question for me.
When that local AAA team finally played their last game on a field that has now been bought by a soccer team, I went down after the game and scraped some dirt from the catcher’s box and gave it to my wife. After I am cremated that dirt is to be mixed with my ashes before they are stored, scattered or tossed into a landfill.