What is the appeal of baseball?

[Mr.Bill]

As a Mets fan yes even I would go to the old Yankee stadium often to see a Yankee game.. It was a good,FAIR park.. And the Yankees were usually a good team..

The new Yankee Stadium?? LOL I wouldn't waste my time.. It's a F'ing joke.. You could try to bunt a ball and hit an HR out in right field.. I understand no one wants to see 1-0 games every single game.. But damn, no one wants to see a slow pitch softball 10-9 every single games either.. It's ridiculous. The games go on 4-5 hours.. Every single player is swinging to the fence.. It's boring, IMO..

[OGPhilly]

Yeah, I don't know how far this is going to have to go until the MLB says enough with these ridiculously easy hitters parks.

[Bill_in_Bethlehem]

[OGPhilly]

[Mr.Bill]

One of the reasons the pitchers are now dominating baseball is because the hitters are no longer taking so much steroids they look like King Kong and they defy age, ala Barry Bonds, and can hit 70 homeruns when they're 88 years old..

A case in point is Mr. Rodriguez. He's 37 years old, and unless he finds a drug that can't be detected his skills seem to have fallen off a cliff.

[OGPhilly]

I'm still scratching my head about the amount of perfect games being thrown lately. Can't attribute that all to getting rid of steroids. A perfect game is an incredible feat, a true anomaly of the game, but now it seems like the new normal is that it's not odd to have multiple PG's in a season. It's really weird.

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[OGPhilly]

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[OGPhilly]

I was talking about the translation to tv. It doesn't work for a video camera imo.

But no, I'm already on record saying I think the skill of baseball is truly something to marvel at. It's the least athletic of the sports you've mentioned, but definitely not the least skillful.