Baseball is the most rediculous sport on TV

[KurtNYC]

Even the highlights are boring. How many sports can people play while doing drugs? Try playing soccer with chaw in your mouth. Standing around for hours, batters calling time out so they can step out of the box and take a practice swing or whatever the heck that ritual is. Scratching in the dirt like chickens. Pitchers calling time outs, catchers timeout, umpires...timeout. Practice pitches, practice swings -- they're 40 years old, been playing for 36 years -- how much more friggin practice do they need?

Dugout emptying brawls. Hitting hot dog mascots with bats. Hitting fans with chairs.

My suggestion is they need to update the game a little. Give it a "Survivor" meets "Fear Factor" edge. Soak the balls in cognac and light them before the pitch. Release a different animal onto the field during each inning. Start with animals that are just a nuisance like a big labordaor retriever that goes from player to player to be petted, but step it up to pit bulls, tigers, stuff like that. In the top of the ninth inning start to flood the field with water. If they go into extra innings, Russell Crowe comes out and starts swinging that Gladiator sword.

[phaseolus]

1. Depends -- do they still broadcast Roller Derby??

n/t

[Zuni]

20. Roller Deby?

Roller derby was awesome.

[Kikosexy2]

2. Well..

it's pretty boring. But for a gay guy like my moi--well there's something about men in tight-fitting pants with super robust booties swinging a big stick that makes me all tingling with orgasmic sensations! Dodger dog anyone?

[Kali]

3. ya don't watch baseball on tv (except series)

ya watch farm teams and little league and eat nachos and hotdogs and drink beer and snow cones - its a wholistic thing, man.

[truthseeker1]

4. Love it!

You nailed it - in the last year or so, I've refused to watch TV sports. I used to enjoy football, but I realized it was just how I was socialized. I even used to play baseball and softball as a kid, and still would enjoy a pickup game. But watching it on TV? uh uh, forget it, I have better things to do. TV in general takes up so much of our time, and TV sports is just such a waste of time.

You have some good, creative ideas there - you should pitch (pun intended) them to some studios!

[gnofg]

8. Why Baseball?

Of al the games this is the most difficult. On TV it isn't the greatest but playoff games are tension filled. It is also the only game that records mistskes on the scoreboard. You can start all the other sports at a later age. Baseball must be started no later than 8 years old.

[Heyo]

5. I like George Carlin's idea...

... to make the game a little better.

If the pitcher hits the batter with the ball.... batter's out.

:dunce:

Heyo

[BoX o BooX]

6. You're talking "Basebrawl."

MAD Magazine detailed this in the 70's. It was hilarious.

Batters keep their bats when they take a base. Tackles are allowed. Things like that.

In the real world... if you think baseball is boring, you don't know baseball. Something is always going on. You just don't see it.

[CO Liberal]

7. No - That Prize Goes to "Celebrity Poker"

:-)

[Zuni]

19. I like Celebrity Poker

Not as much as the WS of Poker or the World Tour, but I like it.

[skygazer]

9. I disagree

The most ridiculous "sport" on TV is Nascar. Guys in cars going around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and around and... CRASH... around and around and around and around and around and around...........

[gnofg]

10. got it right

Skygazer you got it right

[KurtNYC]

13. I heard someone describe the Indy 500 as

800 right turns.

[Kali]

21. left turns

nt

[jdots]

15. anyone for tennis ????

Watching Golf is like watching moss grow.....the worst offender is American Idol turning music into a competitive sport......how long can she hold that note ? wow what overdone vibrato.....
what we need is some good sports casters who know nothing about the games ,they can sit there drink warm beer and eat
nachos prepared in the 80s

[truthseeker1]

24. Yes! That's a topper - ding ding ding ding

Stupid sport (sport??).....not to mention a pointless waste of gas. Typifies our consumer society.

[Unstuck In Time]

11. It's not the game. It's these truly horrible announcers.

I mean, they suck the life out of the whole thing, nattering away about everything but what's happening on the field.

Heck, even the camera shots are a cliché -- Extreme Close-Up on the pitcher's eyes... ECU on the batter's eyes... ECU on the manager's eyes... ECU on the hot-dog vendor's eyes... back to ECU on the pitcher's eyes.

Fox. Everything they do just plain sucks.

[Amaya]

12. Bowling on TV is a mind blower

don't ya think?:)

[Unstuck In Time]

14. Golf on the radio?

:7

[jdots]

16. jeez Golf on the radio exellent !

I like the thought of a jerk screeming into the mic trying to spice that up.

[jdots]

17. Bowling for Jesus has a nice ring to it

MONSTER TRUCKS ? baseball is looking better all the time.

[lastknowngood]

18. Not as long as synchronized swimming exists.

n/t

[redqueen]

22. Please tell me you spelled it 'rediculous' on purpose

just to mess with us.

Please?

[miss_kitty]

23. BWahahahahaha!

I read through trying to decide whether I needed to point that out-thanks for doing it for me :)