{"id":214,"date":"2009-09-03T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2009-09-03T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T17:38:21","slug":"love-it-or-hate-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/love-it-or-hate-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Love it or Hate it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a great quote from Joe Posnanski about why some people hate certain sports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always said that I have no interest in converting non-baseball fans into baseball fans. For one thing, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I could do it. But for another, I fully understand why some people think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oppressively boring. I understand because \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 baseball IS oppressively boring if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it. …<\/p>\n

So, sure, if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like baseball you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like baseball. But, you know, football is nine minutes of action and 51 minutes of meetings. Basketball is repetitive, and hockey is a game of line-shifts deflections, and soccer is a whole lot of kicking the ball back to the goalkeeper. Golf is about walking and geometry. Tennis is a math teacher explaining angles. If you want to pick out the worst things in a sport, you can make them all sound insanely boring \u00e2\u20ac\u201d except MMA, perhaps, which is like watching assault and battery. The beauty in all these sports is those moments of brilliant action and the way the imagination fills the empty spaces. People have been burying baseball for a long time, and there are certainly reasons to believe that someday soon America will move on to something else.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think so, though. Yes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s local. No, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do great TV ratings. Yes, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cynicism in the game and yes kids need more stimulation in their lives. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something about baseball that has endured and, I believe, will endure through steroids and short attention spans and free agency and big contracts and everything else. Maybe I could explain it like this: If you go up to a baseball fan anywhere in America \u00e2\u20ac\u201d in Montana, in Florida, in Texas or in Connecticut \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and ask \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who scored the millionth run?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a chance they will say they have no idea. But there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a pretty good chance they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bob Watson.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Why do they know that? Why do they care about something that meaningless? I think they care because of something I have said about baseball before: \u00e2\u20ac\u009dI never argue with people who say baseball is boring because baseball IS boring. But then, suddenly, it isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great.\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes people say things you’re thinking much better than you can. I’ll just leave it at that, and use it as another explanation of why I love baseball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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