World Series

[Escaep]

Anyone watching/following the World Series (baseball)? Currently watching the Giants mop the floor with the Rangers. Shame because I've been pulling for the Rangers all through the playoffs and they've done good work but so far against the Giants they are getting rocked.

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Oh god white poll background with light grey font.

Baseball is boring.

 

[McGooTheWise]

Baseball is boring.

This. hit a ball with a stick, then run in a circle. I don't get it. I know, I'm oversimplifying it, but watching it on T.V. is mostly spent watching the pitcher's ass while he decides how fast he wants to throw his ball, because the cameraman is a horny gay guy, and everyone's wearing tights like an early 80's Van Halen concert. I'm sorry, I just don't find it fun. Then again, I don't like sports, save for Soccer (Or real football for everyone who isn't from the U.S.), and Hockey.

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Btw, my goal was to make someone laugh. I don't really think like that.

EDIT: LOL GET IT! GOAL LOL

 

[Stigmata]

My hypothesis is that American sports contain significant amounts of downtime to allow spectators to wrap their minds around the strategy of the game.

Baseball: Slow as ****.
Football: Slow as ****.
Basketball: Canadian.
Hockey: Canadian.
Soccer: British (or Sumerian or whatever if you really want to go back that far).

 

[Viperidae]

Baseball is a lot more fun to play than watch.

Giants plz.

 

[David.Seth2]

baseball is boring, but I still hope the A's win.

This. hit a ball with a stick, then run in a circle. I don't get it. I know, I'm oversimplifying it, but watching it on T.V. is mostly spent watching the pitcher's ass while he decides how fast he wants to throw his ball, because the cameraman is a horny gay guy, and everyone's wearing tights like an early 80's Van Halen concert. I'm sorry, I just don't find it fun. Then again, I don't like sports, save for Soccer (Or real football for everyone who isn't from the U.S.), and Hockey.

Oh yes, soccer is sooo much better. A bunch of people running around, kicking a ball, sometimes with NO goals until the very end (if at all). I find all sports equally boring to watch. Except Rugby. But that never gets any air time in the US (to my knowledge) so I'm outa luck.

 

[Krynn72]

I always love it when hl2.net talks sports. Almost everybody here has no idea how any of the sports work, and think its all as boring and simple as "dudes doing stuff with balls and/or sticks." Strategy games are so boring and dumb, all people do is click on things and wait for stuff. You're all a bunch of nerds who don't know anything about anything!

That said, I haven't watched any games this whole Baseball season. Same with the football season so far. I'm just too busy usually to have the time to chill out and watch. Once a season starts, and I haven't watched from the beginning, its really hard to get into it mid-way through, since I missed out on all the earlier games.

 

[Escaep]

My hypothesis is that American sports contain significant amounts of downtime to allow spectators to wrap their minds around the strategy of the game.

Baseball: Slow as ****.
Football: Slow as ****.
Basketball: Canadian.
Hockey: Canadian.
Soccer: British (or Sumerian or whatever if you really want to go back that far).

The reason American sports are so slow paced (if you watch them on TV) is that the networks are not making as much money from ads and commercials as they used to (due to Tivo and the likes.) So they break the game up more to add more commercial breaks. This is very recent proof: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/sh...ked-to-call-timeouts-for-MNF-c?urn=nfl-278323

"At the two-minute warning in every game in the fourth quarter, there are conversations that go by. There's conversations that take place at the two-minute warning before the first half. But there's conversations that take place, and it's the official's responsibility to give the head coach a status of commercials and TV timeouts," Fisher said. "Yesterday, I was told that they were two short. And they looked at me and smiled, and I said, 'Sorry, I can't help you.' Mike Carey came across and said, 'Here's the deal. We're two short.' And I said, 'Mike, I can't help you. I'm trying to get a first down and I'm gonna kneel on it.'

TLDR: NFL officials were notified by the network (in this case ESPN since they bought the rights for all MNF games) that they were two commercial breaks behind and so they asked the coach to call timeouts to catch up.


If you watch the less popular games, most noticeably in college football with lower end division one games or any game for that matter that doesn't get a lot of TV viewers, you'll find the games go a lot faster than their popular friends. To be honest I usually only watch sports games when it comes to the playoffs/finals or when my favorite team is playing another popular team.

Nothing beats actually going to a game of any sport.

 

[Eejit]

Yeah ad breaks contribute to the boredom. Baseball is very tedious to watch moreso than Handegg.
Hurling is the sport of kings.

 

[David.Seth2]

I always love it when hl2.net talks sports. Almost everybody here has no idea how any of the sports work, and think its all as boring and simple as "dudes doing stuff with balls and/or sticks." Strategy games are so boring and dumb, all people do is click on things and wait for stuff. You're all a bunch of nerds who don't know anything about anything!

Playing sports is fun, watching is not. I think the same would go for strategy games. I would rather play than watch

 

[Wanted Bob]

Never liked watching baseball...

That said I enjoy watching soccer and cricket, so I cant really complain that baseball too slow for me...

 

[Stigmata]

The reason American sports are so slow paced (if you watch them on TV) is that the networks are not making as much money from ads and commercials as they used to (due to Tivo and the likes.) So they break the game up more to add more commercial breaks.

No, that's just the reason they're even slower than they used to be. It doesn't negate the fact that the game itself consists of five seconds of action followed by thirty seconds of nothing.