Things you would rather do than watch baseball?

[kaysee]

Listen to Andy D read the dictionary in his Brownlow voice.

 

[Stratton_Gun]

Watch a replay of todays game
hmm actually it's about even

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

Baseball is like cricket on valium.
Played in a T20 timeframe, at test match pace.

 

[Dan]

Make sweet love to Miss Boomer

 

[MAXIMUM GRUNDAGE]

Film Dan making sweet love to Miss Boomer.

 

[Dan]

Film Dan making sweet love to Miss Boomer.

We'll both have to shave

 

[DrEvil]

Chris Yarran.... oh wait.....

 

[Gongswan]

 

[Starburns_]

thurmanmunson.

 

[Upgrayedd]

Film Dan making sweet love to Miss Boomer.

Editing movie of Dan making sweet love to Miss Boomer for the DVD

 

[collingtimber]

Film Dan making sweet love to Miss Boomer.

 

[Starburns_]

Watching Ms Boomer play baseball...



...oops.

 

[KardiniaPark]

I'd watch the shit out of that. Imagine that chunky sidebewb swinging through a pitch...mmmm BRB

 

[11sjw]

Watch all games Port have played this year.

 

[Asgardian]

Actually I like watching American baseball & grid iron, but can't be bothered with American basketball.

 

[thurmanmunson]

Next to soccer, basketball is the most boring sport on earth. Absolutely painful.

I'd probably rather watch an Astros/Cubs game than be subjected to a Port game, and that's saying something. Maybe if Port join the NL they might find greater success.

 

[Gray Day]

I'd probably rather watch an Astros/Cubs game than be subjected to a Port game, and that's saying something. Maybe if Port join the NL they might find greater success.

I thought you enjoyed your experience at a Port match earlier this year?

 

[Brown n Gold]

Sit in a packed AAMI stadium for a Port game...

 

[Plugger35]

Baseball is good to watch live at a game of MLB in the States due to all the crowd interaction that goes on.

Boring as batshit to watch on tv though.

 

[Keys]

Watch the dark knight rises in aurora

 

[Shawt]

Baseball is good to watch live at a game of MLB in the States due to all the crowd interaction that goes on.

Boring as batshit to watch on tv though.

Agreed. I went to a few games in 2009ish when I was there last. I was surprised by how quickly the game went, when you're actually in there and involved in it. Great fun. The crowd really does get into anything that happens

I'm heading back to the US/Canada on Saturday for a month or two, and I'm hoping to catch a game in NY as well as a couple of NFL games. I would never, ever watch MLB on TV though, it just puts me to sleep.

 

[kaysee]

Baseball is good to watch live at a game of MLB in the States due to all the crowd interaction that goes on.
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Each to their own... but personally it is a boring as batshit live... probably why the crowd are trying to create some atmosphere. Last time I watched it live (from my hotel room) I would look out my room window a few times during the game, see how boring it was and went back to browsing BF instead.

 

[chefmeister]

Baseball is good, especially if you take your sense of humour to the game.

Carrn the Yankees!!!

 

[the_interloper]

Read another Tigerboyz thread.

 

[Shawt]

Each to their own... but personally it is a boring as batshit live... probably why the crowd are trying to create some atmosphere. Last time I watched it live (from my hotel room) I would look out my room window a few times during the game, see how boring it was and went back to browsing BF instead.

Nah, the crowds aren't forcing it. The number of sub plots in the game, from really hated players to cult favourites make every at bat a lot of fun. Add to that the foul balls being piffed into the crowd 3-4 times an innings, and you really do get a lot of atmosphere. Saw a guy get carried out on a stretcher after copping a foul ball to the side of the head... there is much more entertainment going on that you don't see on TV

Unlike a lot of sports I've been to, the crowd really love talking about the game as it's happening. Guys will argue, or compare stats, and help out a baffled foreigner with long winded stories about a player's career/life, the teams wins and failures, and which player is ****ing which pr0n star.

One of my favourite sporting moments happened at AT&T stadium in San Fran. Giants v Diamondbacks in '09 I think. It was Buster Posey's debut, and the crowd was going mental every time he did anything. I was sitting behind home plate, a fair way back when a foul ball came straight back over the top of the netting and fizzed into the crowd straight towards the seats where the handicapped folks were sitting. I looked back, and there was a wheelchair bound kid, maybe 18-19, profoundly handicapped, sitting next to his elderly father/grandfather. The old guy caught the ball (it was going at rapid pace), popped it into the kid's mit, and held his arm up with the ball. People were jumping over seats from everywhere to high five him as he laughed and cried with the ball held up. Maybe 100-200 people all just got around him, it was freaking amazing.