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WHAT?! You crazy!

Hockey is boring to watch! Soccer is boring to watch! BASEBALL is the BORINGEST to watch! Basketball is not boring! Neither is volleyball with them bouncing boobies and all.

I'll agree with you on every point except for hockey, especially playoff hockey. And a hockey game live, and in person is awesome. Not NFL football awesome, but awesome. Basketball, on tv or live IS JUST AS BORING AS BASEBALL!!!!

EDIT: Wait, let me take that back, even playoff baseball is more exciting than basketball. In terms of watching, that is. I'd rather play a game of basketball over baseball any day though.

 

[Gek54]

Ice Hockey boring? What is wrong with you???

US needs more Rally racing and less NASCRAP.

 

[Boogie9IGN]

Real men (like sp0rsk and I) play

BADMINTON

 

[Red Dolphin]

cricket playesr only hit one type of pitch. baseball players have to contend with different speeds, arm angles, righty/lefty situations,how the ball curves. whether the pitcher is throwing from the rubber or the strecht position. even the stadiums vary from team to team. in yankee stadium for example the right field fence is dangerous because it's so short. and you have a deep right/center field. in fenway park you have the green monster. in wrigley you have high winds, in colorado you have to contend with the atmosphere (!) and that's just on pitching, i can mention more on hitting too if you'd like.

look, it was a nice atempt at trolling but do your homework next time, mmkay?
p.s softball and baseball are two different beasts. girls play and fat old men play softball, men play baseball.

Oh.........my..........god. "Do your homework next time"? You should take some of your own advice. I'm Australian and I'm not a huge fan of cricket as it's quite boring to watch (although great fun to play) but to say there is only "one type of pitch" in cricket is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. And it's not "pitched", it's bowled. And all those things you mentioned that baseball batters have to contend with applies to cricket also.

It's funny, I live in Australia but I actually grew up playing Tee-ball, Baseball and Basketball. I also played Rugby Union through High School which was great fun.

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Oh.........my..........god. "Do your homework next time"? You should take some of your own advice. I'm Australian and I'm not a huge fan of cricket as it's quite boring to watch (although great fun to play) but to say there is only "one type of pitch" in cricket is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. And it's not "pitched", it's bowled. And all those things you mentioned that baseball batters have to contend with applies to cricket also.

It's funny, I live in Australia but I actually grew up playing Tee-ball, Baseball and Basketball. I also played Rugby Union through High School which was great fun.

can a cricket player hit a ball on the fly?

 

[snaildog]

cricket playesr only hit one type of pitch. baseball players have to contend with different speeds, arm angles, righty/lefty situations,how the ball curves. whether the pitcher is throwing from the rubber or the strecht position. even the stadiums vary from team to team. in yankee stadium for example the right field fence is dangerous because it's so short. and you have a deep right/center field. in fenway park you have the green monster. in wrigley you have high winds, in colorado you have to contend with the atmosphere (!) and that's just on pitching, i can mention more on hitting too if you'd like.

look, it was a nice atempt at trolling but do your homework next time, mmkay?
p.s softball and baseball are two different beasts. girls play and fat old men play softball, men play baseball.

(rolling smiley) I GUESS YOU HAVE ME THERE MATE!

And when I say cricket is harder, I'm not talking about harder to take one swing at the ball (that's another argument). Cricket requires being there for hours with the other team playing with your mind, facing all kinds of different bowlers (spin, swing, fast, slow) and field positions, and communicating with your other batsman. Plus, baseballers would hurt their handseys without ridiculously huge gloves on

Look, you guys are being cute, but I was really after some proper comparitive arguments, such as I've seen on other forums. I've played rugby, cricket, baseball and basketball, and I've seen a lot of Poofball on TV. It's cool that you guys enjoy your sports, but well, if you give a man an Xbox, and he never gets to try a PS2 or Gamecube, then of course he'd enjoy it, right?

 

[Desperado]

You obviously don't know much about baseball, and we don't know much about cricket. so quit your bitchin'. When you say things like, "Plus, baseballers would hurt their handseys without ridiculously huge gloves on " most people aren't going to react kindly.

Mind games? Baseball's got 'em.
Wide range of vastly different types of pitchers [and pitches]? check.
Field positioning? check.
Communicating with your team while batting? check. [base stealing, hit and run, suicide squeeze, bunting, sacrifices, etc.]

Please. I'm just scratching the surface here.