Baseball is not my favorite sport, but it's probably my favorite sporting event to watch live....unless it's our local minor league team. Those metal bleachers in the evening sun are brutal.
Baseball is not my favorite sport, but it's probably my favorite sporting event to watch live....unless it's our local minor league team. Those metal bleachers in the evening sun are brutal.
Excellent points, I was going to bring up the soccer comparison as well.
I will also add that having the sport in your home town helps A LOT as it creates a sense of community. My first time seeing the Rockies at the old Mile High got me hooked on baseball because as MO pointed out earlier its a game that you can pay as much or as little attention to as you want. I love going to Coors Field just for people watching, and more times than not I see some good games despite the woeful Rockies record the last few years. I automatically root for the home teams so I can go to every sporting event in town and have a great time. I never pass up a chance to see my local teams live, but the only one I have a laser focus on while at the game is the Broncos.
Thanks to my friend from Manchester who just flat out misses soccer, I also see a ton of Rapids games every year and have really started to like it. The atmosphere is different at each event, but come playoff time you can't help but feel just as invested as you would a Broncos game (well... almost). Aside from Football for me which I could watch by myself all day, most sporting events are very social experiences for me. I love going to games or watching them with hardcore fans in front of a TV even if my passion for each game is not on the same level as those around me.
The weird thing to me is that being at a Broncos game the time just flies by. I think it may be because you don't have the rhythms or the stops you get with commercial breaks after scores, but the time leading up to the game I sit waiting for it to start seems like a fraction of the actual game. I treasure every Bronco game I've ever been to, but the presentation at home on TV is much better as far as keeping track of things.
The Yankees organization is the epitomy of everything that is wrong with the game of baseball
Great replies guys - cheers. I will check out that documentary.
The Blue Jays are a good shout as there is a small chance i might be moving to Canada in a few years - I have narrowed it down to between them and the Rockies. Definitely no Red Sox or Yankees!!!!
I was at both Wembely games last year and they both passed in the blink of an eye - all three games have sold out this year (i have tickets for all three!!) but i very much doubt there is a market for even one baseball game in the UK - its a shame as it sounds like it is a real event worth going to.
I do like the Chicago white sox.
Go Rocks.
Each pitch is a game within a game. The level of strategy that's involved at the MLB level is easy to overlook as a casual fan - and given the high failure rate for hitters, it can seem tedious or laborious. (e.g., If a hitter succeeds in getting a hit 3 out of 10 times then they are an above-average hitter).
You've really got to understand the basics and then you can start to appreciate more of the strategy that goes into making the game so interesting. There are so many layers.
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