Ok, Duane, before you go after me on this one, COME ON PEOPLE!
After sitting at Fatburger with my wife enjoying some nice fat burgers, lo and behold, on their nice, shiny flat screen monitor are the Boston... Celtics? I don't know you know, oh yeah the red sox guys, 10-1? around the 4th inning vs charlie sheen's team. Does it ever occur to anyone how bloody boring it is to watch baseball? And they get paid so much money too! It is like modern-day revelation all over again.
Think of the umpires! Is it really that hard to tell if a ball lands on the other side of the line they so neatly mark from the home base to the outfield? And then I love how they talk about old men rowing boats between pitches. It's like they really have nothing better to talk about. Those poor, poor announcers.
Pica says "That's why there are always fights at baseball games. They're so bored they have to take their aggravation out on somebody. Which is weird because they have a bat but they always forget to bring it for a good broken arm or leg."
And then Pica and I see them post on the screen the player's favorite whatever it was. They actually have little facts about the players! Yeah, again, nothing better to talk about! And it's not like how many times they hit the ball or missed, but like their favorite colors and breakfast foods? Pica says "Player: Joe Robinson, Spends his spare time cuddling puppies and prefers scrambled eggs" Yeah! It's that ridiculous!
I'm sorry, I just never thought I would hate watching baseball this much.
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I saw a Fat Burger this weekend - is it worth A) the coming coronary, and B)the wife's angry glare about the coming coronary?
With that, I will continue reading, but my short answer is that I follow the post-modernist bent on fairness: if fairness could exist, then we still wouldn�t be able to understand it. So of course baseball is fair.
Wait a minute! This posting isn't about baseball and fairness, it is about baseball and crappiness. That's a whole 'nother argument.
You have forced me to do what should never be done: sit down and write a manifesto on why baseball is the best sport. What have you done?
Why!? Don't do it Duane. How do you pronounce `coronary`?
Baseball is in the same category as fishing. Not bad if you're drunk, puzzling otherwise. I have to admit though, a live game is a lot of fun. I can't really get the wave down in my living room though.
Yeah but its fun because you're fooling around with waves and laughing at other people, not because the game is entertaining.
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