Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for September 14, 2018

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    drivingfuriously Premium Member about 6 years ago

    At least in baseball, they don’t use a lot of energy to score each run. In soccer, they move so much to score so little.

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    gary  about 6 years ago

    No flopping in baseball. But could use yellow and reg cards to warn and eject pitchers. Yellow for intentionally throwing at a player but missing, and red for 2nd close throw, or intentionally hitting batter.

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    jarvisloop  about 6 years ago

    The really old schoolers like to envision baseball back in the 1800s and early 1900s, back in the dead ball era, back in the days when pitchers didn’t kill their arms, back when they relied upon the defense behind them.

    I have watched vintage baseball games that are far more interesting and entertaining than today’s so-called games.

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    docforbin  about 6 years ago

    People would still rather see Giancarlo Stanton hit a ball out of Yankee Stadium for a home run than see Wayne Rooney score the only goal in a 1-0 snoozefest. This is why soccer will never supplant baseball as America’s favorite pastime because at least somebody scores in baseball.

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    ArmOfTheSportsPress  about 6 years ago

    I personally always enjoy a good pitching duel in baseball… or a 17-14 slugfest in football. There’s a large difference between low scoring via good defense and low scoring via bad offense.

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    Polsixe  about 6 years ago

    Watching a premiere pitcher at work going on a complete game shutout is seeing a real virtuoso performance, it becomes a memorable event.

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    garysee  about 6 years ago

    1-0 in baseball is interesting because it doesn’t happen ALL the time.

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    Artie Adams  about 6 years ago

    The thing about baseball is there’s more skilled athleticism on defense preventing a run than there is in brute forcing a homer. #BanTheDH

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    richkinn  about 6 years ago

    Same thing for basketball. Thing is, any sport is boring to those who don’t understand the core part of that sport…the strategy. Baseball makes no sense to a cricket aficionados, hockey looks like a brawl to NASCAR fans (watching cars go round in a circle, looking for a pass gap). Soccer is a strategy game, so is baseball. The NFL is high priced boredom, I’d rather watch the CFL (always unpredictable and more action). Promote the sport you like, shut the hell up about sports that you don’t understand…you expose you miserable ignorance.

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    buckman-j  about 6 years ago

    To paraphrase Tom Hanks “There’s no flopping in Baseball”

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    phoenixnyc  about 6 years ago

    It isn’t so much that there’s not enough scoring in baseball than the fact that I can turn on the game, see who’s pitching and who’s batting, make a pit stop in the bathroom, go into the kitchen to make a sandwich (after washing my hands, of course!), field a telemarketing call, and when I come back to the living room, it’s the SAME PITCHER AND BATTER.

    Being at the stadium, of course, enhances the experience so one doesn’t mind how slow the game is. Baseball is much better watched at the stadium than on TV (the reverse is true for football).

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    jbmlaw01  about 6 years ago

    The tension in a close game in baseball is that a score can arise in less than a second, at any time. Don’t blink. The Sept 9, 1965 game at Dodger Stadium was surely the best ever. Other than maybe July 2, 1963 at Candlestick Park.

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    whelan_jj  about 6 years ago

    Soccer could be fixed with one simple change: eliminate the offside rule. It’s there only to give poorer teams a chance by keeping scores low so a team can win with one lucky shot.

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