Holy fuck, why is baseball so fucking boring, bros?

Baseball was wildly popular before radio wtf are you talking about

it's a fun sport to play, also because you stand around all day.

Baseball became boring when analytics nerds and statmen slowed down the sport with their endless relief pitchers and boring walk-a-thon tactics.

Low effort sport basically beer chugging entertainment

Yea Forums is my home board and i watch every game my team plays even when they're bad or mediocre and have for several years
AMA
(also boxing is the sport that lends itself better to movies than baseball, raging bull and rocky are better than any baseball movie)

>invention of the radio: 1895
>first world series held: 1903
spectator sports and radio came into popularity hand-in-hand

Who's your ball team? Is college ball even more boring than MLB?

phillies
college baseball, like all college sports, are great entertainment live when you have good crowds, but the quality is pathetic vs. the majors

It's a single-digit IQ sport then? I buy that.

This movie sucked and then it justs ends

>sends ball flying with a bat
>run around bases
>home run
god i love baseball

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It's boring because it's American. Why else would only the Japanese care?

If a sport becomes boring because people become better at it, then the sport is shit

Soccer and American Football only became better when statnerds started getting hired

>filtered
Because it's a sport about small changes, build-up, and focus. You play 162 games in the regular season but only 12 teams will make it into the playoff tournament. The entire season will always come down to one pitcher and one batter staring each other down. No other sport has that build-up and final tension (especially taking into consideration that they're the boys of summer playing out the drama in a pastoral field).

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

RL story movies will just end abruptly or on a bizarre note because that's where the story ended

it’s comfy

Why do dudes in the lower bush leagues bust their asses trying to become ballplayers when 99% won't and cannot make it to the big league? (And if they do, they get treated like shit as depicted in Moneyball)?

By "watch" do you mean you have it on in the background while you do other stuff? Do you work in the industry?

Sounds shit in a humid summer

Most sport is except when you're playing it.

>it just ends
You were filtered. Stick to cape shit.

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sorkin is a hack

What the fuck was the point of the dude's daughter doing that awful singing bit at the end?

It's boring but comfy. Putting on a baseball game on a cozy spring/summer/fall night is just about the most relaxing thing in the world.
Its slowness allows you to zone in and out without missing much, it allows analysis and storytelling between plays, and because it's not fast paced everything doesn't just blend together.

I put it every game on either TV, my computer, or phone.
Normally, I sit and watch the whole thing. If I have family obligations (i just had a kid) i still have it on in the background.

to make you cry

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i do not work in the industry, i just really like baseball. my favorite thing in the world is grilling outside in the sun with baseball on my laptop in the window right by where i grill

the movie that ruined baseball forever

Baseball is kino, sure analytics and the long ass regular season have made parts of it drag on, but the history and characters make it
Playoff baseball is incredible, every moment matters, the build up, the tenseness just before each pitch, you gotta really sit down sometime this fall and watch
pbs.org/show/baseball/ fyi comfy ken burns doc is free to stream

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It was charming. His daughter playfully singing "you're such a loser dad, you're such a loser dad" when the viewer knows Billy has finally decided what is important in his life and overcame all those standing against his vision of how to build a winning team from the scraps.

he lost though

>i just had a kid

Congratulations, user

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I wish sports meant something to me, but I just can't manage to care about that shit

>he lost
Not in terms of his career. Not in terms of his vision. Not in terms of recognizing what's important in his life. Not in terms of overcoming his disappointments and having a new means of contextualizing the scraps.

Take the Communitypill and just enjoy a team because other people in your area also enjoy it

Generally, people who are cynical towards sports just weren't good at them. They're resentful so they reduce the achievements entailed by competition and the reach towards physical perfection to just playing a game. They're like anything--you enjoy them based on what you can bring to the table according to your intellect and outlook on life.

why do you attach yourself to movies are you also still trying to win your last game?

>movie about how noble and pure of heart baseball is
>constantly portrays the number crunchers that worry about player skill and appeal as heartless dinosaurs
>the team we're supposed to root for is assembled not for their love of the game but by a soulless ivy league computer nerd using statistics
>none of the above even matters because the teams that have the most money always win the games that matter no exceptions
>the kind hearted baseball purist sells out the moment he gets offered more money

What was the actual point of this stupid fucking movie?

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To annoy you personally

Congrats on having an iq over 90

>the kind hearted baseball purist sells out the moment he gets offered more money
literally the opposite happened

he didn't leave, he literally still works there decades later

Being aware of the universal themes in a film is much better than being a retard who mistakes personal cynicism for wisdom. Let me know when you win your first game.
The purists were the ones opposing him and if you don't understand the interplay of how both sides were misguided I'm not going to explain it to you. You didn't even notice he turns Boston down to be close to his family.

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I like baseball and I thought Moneyball was an interesting idea when I first read about it. The movie was boring. Also fuck the A's and all small market teams. They spend the bare minimum to field a shitty team and then the owners pocket all of the cash. At least the Yankees spend the money that their fans give them on players.

That's not how you win, user. Good luck in life.

>guy who genuinely loves baseball gives up money to stay close to his literal cucking wife
>number of championships Oakland A's have won since then: 0
>last time the Oakland A's won was in 1989
>the same year they sent Beane down to the minors because he was a projected superstar who failed to deliver and spent most of the year on the bench or playing outfield while the superstars carried the team to the championship

I heckin love professional sportsball you guys! It's so interesting seeing which team has enough money to buy the championship this year by being able to afford the most genetic freak superstars to carry the rest of the team! How can you not be romantic about professional sportsball?

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>guy who genuinely loves baseball gives up money to stay close to his literal cucking wife
He lost his love of the game and he stayed close to his daughter.
>championships
Don't care. This isn't The Mighty Ducks.
>last time Oakland A's won
Again, don't care. I'm watching a movie and prefer to watch the Jays
>[unironically posts a factor that plays into the themes of the movie without understanding how it does so]
You sucked at sports and were always picked last, huh? Too bad you're such a failed person you never learned how to share a sense of victory in the accomplishments of others. Focus on the commercialism if it makes you feel smart though--I'm sure lots of people will enjoy conversations with you.

>That's not how you win, user. Good luck in life.

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>He lost his love of the game
He had lost sight of his love of the game due to his obsession with failure*

Bye.

I love test cricket so i'm more than capable of sticking with a sport that can be painful at times, but i've tried to get into baseball and it unfortunately it really is relentlessly fucking boring.

>166454358

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Enjoy your surprise :)
Part of the fun of the sport is how pastoral it is--it's laid back and meanders. It increases the sense of stakes later on when things start boiling down to single plays. I totally get people who just bandwagon during the playoffs though.