Post by JunkyardJesse on Sept 13, 2015 20:51:29 GMT -9
Fuck that shit.
This is my opinion. Part of the game is, the umpires fuck up sometimes. I mean when it doesn't go your way you "hate" it, of course, but really, you secretly like that it's part of the game. Maybe you don't even realize it. It's kind of like this; sometimes your team loses. You don't like it when they lose but it's the prospect of losing and that's what makes it rad when they win. If there was no loss the meaning of the win would be nothing. That's why people who really like baseball like that there are unlimited innings; you play to a win and a loss and there is no 1 point for losing in overtime or whatever.
It's the same thing with the umpiring. It's a fallible human being making a call. And even if the call is obvious to you it's not settled until it's settled. The botched calls, the arguments where the manager gets thrown out and steals the bases and uses the rosin bag like a grenade -- all part of the game. The people who claim they want this part of the game to be gone are the people who are going to miss it the most because obviously they are sucked in more by the drama its created. Baseball is a beautiful game because there is an ebb and a flow, a build-up of tension until a dramatic outburst occurs.
I know it's become a standard practice in football but, in my opinion, football is a sport for meatheads who basically get a hard on when 20+ men smash into each other for 5 seconds and then they cut to commercial for 2 minutes. Fine, have instant replays in football, who gives a fuck because that's a sport for simpletons.
But Baseball is a sport from a different time, when your average Joe had a fucking functional brain in his head, and people appreciated nuance. So quit trying to make it like Football. Maybe football is more popular than baseball. Nicki Minaj is more popular than The Biters but fuck Nicki Minaj.
There should be no instant replays in baseball. Fuck that noise.
This is my opinion. Part of the game is, the umpires fuck up sometimes. I mean when it doesn't go your way you "hate" it, of course, but really, you secretly like that it's part of the game. Maybe you don't even realize it. It's kind of like this; sometimes your team loses. You don't like it when they lose but it's the prospect of losing and that's what makes it rad when they win. If there was no loss the meaning of the win would be nothing. That's why people who really like baseball like that there are unlimited innings; you play to a win and a loss and there is no 1 point for losing in overtime or whatever.
It's the same thing with the umpiring. It's a fallible human being making a call. And even if the call is obvious to you it's not settled until it's settled. The botched calls, the arguments where the manager gets thrown out and steals the bases and uses the rosin bag like a grenade -- all part of the game. The people who claim they want this part of the game to be gone are the people who are going to miss it the most because obviously they are sucked in more by the drama its created. Baseball is a beautiful game because there is an ebb and a flow, a build-up of tension until a dramatic outburst occurs.
I know it's become a standard practice in football but, in my opinion, football is a sport for meatheads who basically get a hard on when 20+ men smash into each other for 5 seconds and then they cut to commercial for 2 minutes. Fine, have instant replays in football, who gives a fuck because that's a sport for simpletons.
But Baseball is a sport from a different time, when your average Joe had a fucking functional brain in his head, and people appreciated nuance. So quit trying to make it like Football. Maybe football is more popular than baseball. Nicki Minaj is more popular than The Biters but fuck Nicki Minaj.
There should be no instant replays in baseball. Fuck that noise.
