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  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    6 months ago

    Baseball is a sport of the proletariat because it is (a) heavily unionized, (b) most commonly watched while skipping work, © dirt cheap to attend, and (d) affording you ample opportunity to radical your coworkers in between innings.

    Football is a trash sport for trash people.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        156 months ago

        Once you get into the pitching, baseball is at least as suspenseful as football from a play-by-play perspective. I’ll agree that extra-innings can get kinda rough. But, especially with the intro of the pitch clock, its pretty well paced and compelling.

      • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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        46 months ago

        As someone who was a baseball fan as a child but haven’t watched in years, I caught baseball fever again while witnessing Ohtani’s record breaking performance this past June. That was history in the making and he singlehandedly redeemed the sport.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      186 months ago

      Football is literally one of the most complex sports that exists in the world, where every play has basically 8-10 highly specialized things by professional athletes happening at once, including one of the most difficult singular sports position of all time (quarterback). You can literally spend a half hour breaking down each piece of a single football play because there is so much going on on the field.

      I am not a huge fan of football culture, as the tendency in the past was to oversimplify the sport, and there isn’t really any excuse for how damaging it is to the players nor the pervasive ownership culture that exists within it, but football in theory is one of the coolest and most unique sports of all time, and I am absolutely looking forward to flag football in the Olympics.

      • queermunist she/her
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        6 months ago

        Football is a sport for nerds who were shamed out of their other nerdy hobbies. There’s collectables, data and statistics, fantasy leagues, and like you said every game is back-to-back complex interplay of strategy and tactics. I prefer different nerd shit, but I respect those nerds.

      • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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        86 months ago

        bruh there’s 8 minutes of action in a 3.5 hour broadcast of an nfl game. no amount of complexity or amazing feats of athletics is gonna make up for that

        Death to America

        • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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          46 months ago

          You could do the same math for a game of chess, or any other activity where you get some time to think about your next move.

          • 2Password2Remember [he/him]
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            56 months ago

            and none of those games/activities are hugely popular spectacles which form the cornerstone of people’s social lives. football is way, way more popular it should be based on pure entertainment value

            Death to America

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              46 months ago

              If you’re interested in football (or any similar activity where there are built-in pauses to strategieze), the pauses are largely entertaining, too. It really comes down to whether you understand/care about what’s going on.

                • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                  46 months ago

                  I’m not a TicTok kid shrug-outta-hecks

                  A few seconds to think “wonder what they’ll do here,” a few seconds to think “what does it look like they’ll do from the alignment,” and a few seconds to think “OK they’re moving some guys before the ball is snapped, what’s that going to mean?” are not boring if you are interested in the sport.

                  Most of the people saying “football is boring because there is too much downtime” would find an 8-minute condensed version of a game similarly boring. They just don’t like football.

                  • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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                    16 months ago

                    American football was bad before TikTok existed mate

                    Not really a few seconds if there’s two minutes of downtime for every minute of play.

                    You can compare that to other football sports like soccer or Australian Rules football where it’s pretty much continuous play and more exciting for it.

                    That said, some people are really into cricket and that drags on for days. Days.

                    Is there an eight minute condensed version you can link?

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          6 months ago

          How is this objectively any different than any other of the most popular sports, where the majority of the game is passing shit around with maybe 30 to 40 attempts on goal per game with maybe scores once every half hour. You’ll know a football game is bad when you wake up after an hour and nothing has happened, but that’s your average soccer game. Every second of those 8 minutes matter.

          Unless you are talking about basketball where defense has essentially become a joke in the last decade. I like basket-ball alot though, they are just in a rough spot analyically for the game.

          In the field sports model, rugby and hurling are superior games for the spectator, however, there is way less going on on the pitch for either of those sports during moments of play.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        46 months ago

        I am absolutely looking forward to flag football in the Olympics

        Genuinely would like to see this,. Although with as many players moving as quickly as they are, I suspect we’re still going to see a lot of injuries. Hopefully far fewer TBIs, though.

    • @RenownedBalloonThief@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      Counterpoint: the MLB’s disgusting efforts to facilitate the “defecting” of talented Cuban and Venezuelan baseball players.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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      86 months ago

      Football is a trash sport for trash people.

      Wow I don’t see people who watch baseball tailgating in the parking lot getting blackout drunk and swinging on each other?

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      I love baseball but MLB is getting harder to watch with the amount of ad creep I’ve noticed in the last season or two. It’s sounds strange but I’ve actually gotten into MLS in the last year since it feels like the least advertising-intensive sport right now. I actually dropped watching the NHL because covering the ice in ads started bugging me too much.

      • Weedian [he/him]
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        86 months ago

        They put ads on the back of the pitcher’s mound for television audience. I yelled at the tv when I first saw that

        • Southloop [he/him]
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          66 months ago

          Tell me about it. The oldest continually operating team in the league now has a big yellow sack of concrete on their shoulders.

      • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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        66 months ago

        MLB is getting harder to watch with the amount of ad creep I’ve noticed

        That’s fair. Whenever I can get a pirated stream, I genuinely enjoy the big blue MLB logo and total silence where the ad-breaks are supposed to be.

        I actually dropped watching the NHL because covering the ice in ads started bugging me too much.

        Never got into NHL, but I’m down in Texas, so… I do feel like the live games are getting better entirely due to the relative lack of ads everywhere.

      • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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        66 months ago

        The lack of commercial breaks during a soccer game is why the sport was so unpopular in the US until recently. Well that, and the growing immigrant population that come from soccer-loving nations. But now with streaming and digitally inserted ads during the game broadcasters are willing to promote it now.