I like some sport, motor racing and rugby both of which I spend hours talking about with my cis-daughter and US sport baseball with my partner where I have been a Red Sox fan since 1978! Oh and she is a Rays fan 

Also like TV programs like Sopranos and Ray Donovan bad I know

Love Jessica

Quote from: IAmM on January 02, 2019, 01:58:37 AM
Seriously, why are there farms in baseball?

Football and basketball have farm teams.  They are called universities. 

Quote from: IAmM on January 02, 2019, 01:58:37 AM
Seriously, why are there farms in baseball?

With the price of good baseball players it is cheaper to grow your own.  There is also the pride that comes from doing it that way.

Quote from: Maid Marion on January 02, 2019, 06:13:29 AM
With the price of good baseball players it is cheaper to grow your own.  There is also the pride that comes from doing it that way.

But pride for what, baseball??? I did not even realize hat this is a sport, until somebody told me.  When you watch it, some people stand around on the field most of the time, while one tries to throw a ball and somebody else trise to hit it with a tick.  That's it, don't know what is sporty about it!?   

Quote from: Dietlind on January 02, 2019, 11:31:02 AM
But pride for what, baseball??? I did not even realize hat this is a sport, until somebody told me.  When you watch it, some people stand around on the field most of the time, while one tries to throw a ball and somebody else trise to hit it with a tick.  That's it, don't know what is sporty about it!?   

The sport is trying not to get hit by the ball or clobbered with the bat. 

Quote from: BritneyX on January 02, 2019, 06:43:17 PM
The sport is trying not to get hit by the ball or clobbered with the bat. 

I could think of less involved ways for this!

Aggression via proxy.  You can be pretty normal physically and be an outstanding baseball player.  Unlike many other sports, in which the top players just too big and strong to relate to.

Quote from: Maid Marion on January 02, 2019, 09:23:45 PM
Aggression via proxy.  You can be pretty normal physically and be an outstanding baseball player.  Unlike many other sports, in which the top players just too big and strong to relate to.

Correct.  Basketball has become some dang cult and football has devolved into the most brutish, Neanderthal (no offense, Neanderthals) display of steroid abuse that Pro Wrestling seems like a night out at the Opera.  In the end, it is all just entertainment and the entertainers aren't very entertaining anymore. 

Not complaining at all (really) but I am chuckling to myself that the discussion evolved to baseball - I kind of started the tangent but too funny.

Btw -  baseball - farm teams - that is funny.  Growing players LOL.  Have to know baseball to get it.

Quote from: KimOct on January 02, 2019, 09:57:25 PM
Not complaining at all (really) but I am chuckling to myself that the discussion evolved to baseball - I kind of started the tangent but too funny.

Btw -  baseball - farm teams - that is funny.  Growing players LOL.  Have to know baseball to get it.

Too phunny!  Yes, it is odd how conversations can meander off onto different tangents.  That is the beauty of human socialization.

Quote from: Dietlind on January 02, 2019, 11:31:02 AM
But pride for what, baseball??? I did not even realize hat this is a sport, until somebody told me.  When you watch it, some people stand around on the field most of the time, while one tries to throw a ball and somebody else trise to hit it with a tick.  That's it, don't know what is sporty about it!?   

It's a game of complex tactics where the pitcher tries to throw a ball on an almost unbelievable trajectory to out fox a batter that could hit a ball out of the ballpark on the smallest mistake and guys in the field that can run dive jump and catch balls that would seem impossible to do

Or

It's a bloke chucking a ball at another bloke who tries to hit it
Lol

Quote from: Jessica_K on January 03, 2019, 02:05:14 AM
It's a game of complex tactics where the pitcher tries to throw a ball on an almost unbelievable trajectory to out fox a batter that could hit a ball out of the ballpark on the smallest mistake and guys in the field that can run dive jump and catch balls that would seem impossible to do

Or

It's a bloke chucking a ball at another bloke who tries to hit it
Lol

And everybody gets exited?  We did that when we played as kids with marbles!  But we did not continue that into adulthood!

As I said, I must be to girlish, because any of those team type sports mean nothing to me, and do not generate the least bit of hinteresst!

And playing ball. With what all professional player get paid, there is nothing play about it. Your out there for a check and not for fun. They should ban the word play from the sports.

Quote from: Dietlind on January 03, 2019, 01:34:46 PM
And everybody gets exited?  We did that when we played as kids with marbles!  But we did not continue that into adulthood!

As I said, I must be to girlish, because any of those team type sports mean nothing to me, and do not generate the least bit of hinteresst!

Linde,

Sometimes watching a game or race is also a social event that brings people together.
That socializing in itself can be interesting, not all may be engrossed in the game.
But that is okay.   


Chrissy

Quote from: Dietlind on January 03, 2019, 01:34:46 PM
And everybody gets exited?  We did that when we played as kids with marbles!  But we did not continue that into adulthood!

As I said, I must be to girlish, because any of those team type sports mean nothing to me, and do not generate the least bit of hinteresst!

The 2019 British and World Marbles Championship will be held on Friday 19 April 2019.

Quote from: Dena on January 03, 2019, 06:36:00 PM
And playing ball. With what all professional player get paid, there is nothing play about it. Your out there for a check and not for fun. They should ban the word play from the sports.

Did you take a look at my notes to write, and copied them?

Quote from: ChrissyRyan on January 03, 2019, 06:43:10 PM


Linde,

Sometimes watching a game or race is also a social event that brings people together.
That socializing in itself can be interesting, not all may be engrossed in the game.
But that is okay.   


Chrissy

Yes it does! Combined with lots of alcohol, greasy snacks, dirty jokes, farting and burping!  And knowing exactly how the person should have played t gain points, because the combined group, who has not been on a sports field for decades, knows the game way better than anybody else!
They would love to go and play, if it would not be for that beer gut that is so hard to move off of the couch!

Quote from: BritneyX on January 03, 2019, 06:57:37 PM
The 2019 British and World Marbles Championship will be held on Friday 19 April 2019.

I probably should sign up as a player for this!

World Marbles Championship LMAO !!!!!

You know what sport is a hoot?  Women's roller derby.  I went to a match in St. Paul MN - what a blast !!  And between 'bouts' as they call them there was this great concert that the fans were all dancing on the derby rink - or whatever it's called.  Lots of lesbians in attendance ( not that they had a badge or anything - lots of PDAs going on ) but also a collection of all humanity.

I was standing in the beer line and another trans woman walks up to me to say Hi.  I thought we were supposed to do a secret handshake or something. LOL  It was a riot.  Can't wait to go back.

Quote from: KimOct on January 03, 2019, 11:55:19 PM
World Marbles Championship LMAO !!!!!

You know what sport is a hoot?  Women's roller derby.  I went to a match in St. Paul MN - what a blast !!  And between 'bouts' as they call them there was this great concert that the fans were all dancing on the derby rink - or whatever it's called.  Lots of lesbians in attendance ( not that they had a badge or anything - lots of PDAs going on ) but also a collection of all humanity.

I was standing in the beer line and another trans woman walks up to me to say Hi.  I thought we were supposed to do a secret handshake or something. LOL  It was a riot.  Can't wait to go back.

When was that?  Here I lived and worked for 40+ years there, and I have never met a trans person ever (at least not that I know of)