Tell me why you love baseball?

Question

Tell me why you love baseball?

Answer 1

i love seeing the the diving aguring the great pitching   robbing bases throwing out someone at second or thrid.

or even home. I also am an umpire so i love to be able to call it before the feild umpire!

Answer 2

I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions..... I know things. For instance, there are 108 beads in a Catholic rosary and there are 108 stitches in a baseball. When I heard that, I gave Jesus a chance. But it just didn't work out between us. The Lord laid too much guilt on me. I prefer metaphysics to theology. You see, there's no guilt in baseball, and it's never boring... which makes it like s*x. There's never been a ballplayer slept with me who didn't have the best year of his career. Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. Besides, I'd never sleep with a player hitting under .250... not unless he had a lot of RBIs and was a great glove man up the middle. You see, there's a certain amount of life wisdom I give these boys. I can expand their minds..... I make them feel confident, and they make me feel safe, and pretty. 'Course, what I give them lasts a lifetime; what they give me lasts 142 games. Sometimes it seems like a bad trade. But bad trades are part of baseball...It's a long season and you gotta trust. I've tried 'em all, I really have, and the only church that truly feeds the soul, day in, day out, is the Church of Baseball. ~ Annie from Bull Druham

Baseball is just fun. Some say slow, I'd say more relaxing. That's not to say they can't  be intence. I love the rivalries, the movies it's inspired, the Sunday afternoon games that the entire family watches, the way fans talk about the games not only at the water cooler but in class or by the lockers. Most kids grow up with it, playing T-ball then onto little league. I love going to games, hearing the fans cheer and sing. Anywhere else getting 40,000 people to do anything together is hard.  It's an American pastime.

Answer 3

Baseball is the best game around.  It's slow enough that you can think about what you just saw before the next thing happens, and it's fast enough that there are bang-bang plays in virtually every game.

You can watch it live, watch it on TV or listen on the radio.  Baseball is the best sport for radio because of the pace.  The announcers have time to "paint the word picture" (to quote the immortal Bob Murphy) instead of trying desperately to describe a dozen things that could be happening simultaneously, as happens with football.  I grew up with baseball on the radio, and I still listen that way.

Baseball is a thinking game rather than a purely physical game.  Baseball makes a person accept failure because even the best hitters will fail 7 out of every 10 times.

Answer 4

I Grew up playing and watching the game of Baseball.  I wanted to be a Pro Baseball player as a kid growing up.  I never made it big.  But i do still play every chance i get just for the love of the game.  Very rarely do i miss my home team (Tigers) playing, rather it means going to the park, or watching the game on the TV.  Baseball is a passion to me.  I'll never grow out of it.

Answer 5

its bcoz i love everything of this game

i love all its rules and i m grown up playing this game

Answer 6

Baseball is something that I always got to share with my father.  For thirty years we would argue about who was the better team.  He would say Yankees and I would advocate the Red Sox or the Mets.

Though we disagreed on that and many other things, I always felt that it brought us closer together.  Sadly, I lost him just before the 1986 season began.  Perhaps it was fate, that was when my two teams squared off in October.

Answer 7

In my family, I'd be absolutely miserable if I didn't love baseball!

Luckily, I do love baseball, so I don't mind when I'm out sweltering in 100 degree weather while watching my younger brother's Little League game.  And I don't mind watching the Rangers play rather than watching House or Gray's Anatomy.

I think I love baseball because first of all, my parents love it, so naturally I caught their enthusiasm at a young age.  

Also, it's a mental game, with the pitcher trying to outsmart the batter, the batter trying to outguess the pitcher, and the managers of both teams trying to out do each other.  

And then there are the spectacular plays: the robbed home run, the diving catch, the strike-em-out throw-em-out double plays, close plays at the bag, getting caught stealing... and so much more.

Baseball is something I can watch when I'm stressed about school, because for a while I can stress about a whole new set of things: Will the pitcher make it through this inning?  Can he just get that ground ball?  Oh, clutch situation with two outs... Who can we pinch-hit?  Should we pinch hit at all?

I think basically, I love baseball because it's so much a part of my life.  I wouldn't know what to do with myself if there wasn't any baseball!

Answer 8

This something that I learned to do when I was very young. My grandmother taught me how to keep score as we listened to the NY Giants game when I was a kid. She learned it from the Giants announcers during WWII when all of the guys were away fighting the j**s and Germans.

My grandfather took me to my first game in the Polo Grounds when I was 6 years old in 1954. It was the Giants vs. the Brooklyn Dodgers. I can remember going into the Polo Grounds for the first time, it was like walking into a cathedral, and it was very spacious.

After the Giants moved, we all became Mets fans, and my grandparents passed on, but I can always remember them when I go to a baseball game, because the first time, I was there with them.

Baseball is the one thing that can put you all back on the same page. If you have a fight with a loved one or relative, when talking baseball, eventually it will get each one of you on the same plateau, where you can hopefully work out your problems.

Answer 9

Even when it changes, it seems to never change too much from what you remember when you were a kid watching your first game with your brothers.