Baseball players!!! Lacrosse (lax) insults?!?!?
wowwwww....quote: "our table plays real sports like baseball"...do yo realize how gay you just made yourself sound? I don't even know why baseball is called a sport, there's basically no physical activity involved. I mean the most running someone can do in a baseball game is .34 miles (supposing someone scores 5 homeruns: 90 ft per base, 90x4 is 360 ft, one homerun, and .07 miles; 360x5=1800, which is .34 miles), and the average middie in lacrosse runs 8 miles a game. You could argue that pitchers take skill. Fastest pitch on record is 100.9 mph by Lynn Nolan Ryan on August 20, 1974. The fastest lacrosse shot on record is 111 mph by Paul Rabil, and he does it while running, while a pitcher just stand there. You could also argue that it takes focus to play baseball. I'll give you this: you have to have great focus to stand around for 3 hours watching guys fix their pants and then be able to have energy to move when it's required of you. In lacrosse, you have to be focused every second of the game. You blink an eye, a pass has been made that you should have intercepted. You go a split second too late and you've missed the goal. And another thing: lacrosse has goalies. Imagine getting baseballs repeatedly chucked at you at a close range at over 90 mph, and having to stop them from going in a 6 by 6 cage with your body. The closest thing to that in baseball is the catcher, and he only gets hit in the thumb. I'm a lacrosse goalie, and I've had to have MRIs done on my thumb and my leg because a shot legitimately broke my bones. Don't even try to say that's gay, because you know you wouldn't have the balls to do that. "America's pass-time"...maybe that's why Americans are supposedly so lazy, they spend time watching baseball, aka doing nothing. And for the record, lacrosse was in America waaayyyy before baseball was. Suck on that, and good luck finding insults for lacrosse.
In baseball, who has the best walk up music?
Mariano Rivera... Enter sandman!!
Who are 3Players on your Favorite Baseball Team who are IRREPLACEABLE?
On the mets who are my absolutle favorite team i belive the three irreplaciple plays would have to be Jose reyes who is the major spark of the team, he steals bases and is a big threat to get on base. David wright , one of the most consistant hitter on the mets , with power, the abillity to go the other way and the abbility to go the other way with the ball Carlos Beltran is my third irreplacible player, he is a gold glove centerfielder and still has the power of hit 30+ hrs and drive in 100+ rbis
Why is "Lefty" a common nickname for baseball coaches and players?
Besides the QB and kicker, which football players do anything differently as a result of their dominant side? Soccer players are expected to have decent control with both feet as well or they simply won’t make it very far. Same with basketball players, same with hockey.Baseball is different however. Because each pitch is so uniform, there is little advantage in having the ability to do things either way as a pitcher. It makes more sense to just be really good at doing one way (though very few pitchers can Switch pitcher). Some batters can do both, but it is very limited for the same reason: because the situation they are responding to (i.e. a pitch) is so consistent, so they can respond to it the same way each time. No need to mirror. This means that there is a drastic and consequential difference between the way righties and lefties do things. Since righties are the overwhelming majority, lefties are noteworthy and frequently recieve a nickname.
Are Sabermetrics good or bad for baseball?
I find the sabermetrics movement to be disturbing. Yes, I do like the "OPS" stat. A good OPS means that a guy is hitting for a combination of average, power, getting on base, and producing runs. I also like WHIP, it's not hard to understand that a low WHIP means that a pitcher is letting relatively few runners reach base per nine innings. I think many of these sabermetric stats are too abstract (no pun intended), for the average fan to follow. I am not a Keith Law fan, and I am not a fan of sportswriters letting sabermetrics determine who they vote for. Sabermetrics does not measure a player's heart. Here's an example. A pitcher may dominate a game and shut out a team for 7 innings. He is taken out after 100 pitches, his WHIP and ERA will improve. Another great pitcher like C.C. Sabathia will shut out a team for 7 innings, but stay in the game to save the bullpen and give up 2 or 3 late runs. His line won't look as impressive as it could have. Sorry, but sabermetricians seem to have been brainwashed. They are only looking at ridiculous stats, just numbers on paper. To think that these nerds actually let these confusing stats make up their minds for them is absurd. This is a game for the fans, not for sportswriters to use formulas to determine the winners of major awards. You mention Andre Dawson, I will give you another example. Peter Gammons, who once was a great baseball writer felt that Tim Raines should be in the Hall. One of his reasons? "Raines' OPS in 1985 was .880". Seriously. Wow, jdr0317, pretty harsh stuff. You know, it is possible to have a good baseball argument, without being rude and insulting. But I guess because you are "bored" and have nothing better to do with your life than study sabermetrics, I will give you a pass here. BTW, Raines and Brock played in different eras, I am thinking that Raines wouldn't have hit so well against Gibson, Koufax, Marichal, and Seaver and Carlton in their primes, not to mention the wider strike zones and elevated pitcher's mounds of the day (which contributed to a lack of offense that eventually prompted the AL to add the DH). But you wouldn't know, because Sabermetrics doesn't tell you stats like that, right? HEY, the Yankees signed Nick Johnson! He doesn't hit for power. He doesn't drive in many runs. And he doesn't steal bases. But he has a great on-base percentage! Now he can walk a lot and clog the bases for the guys behind him!
Why do baseball teams keep playing each other again and again? :s?
Baseball is a game of highs and lows as my coach put it. Baseball is not a domination sport like football, there are a lot more factors that go into a game, such as starting pitchers. In football you have one QB go out and play your game for you, in baseball you have 4-5 different pitchers because in baseball there is almost a game every day, and one pitcher cannot pitch that much, it just simply isn't possible, his arm would fall off. There are also what we call in the zone games, that is when a certain hitter is seeing the ball well and can hit anything. it is very hard to explain, but basically we have series of 3 sometimes 4 to let the better team show that there better. say the yankees, good team right? say the yankees play Houston... now this wont happen cause there in two different leagues but lets just say they play each other. Lets say that the pitcher for Houston pitches a gem, just lights out, and to add insult to injury say the top 4 guys for the yankees are slumping. And for some reason Houston is killing the ball. Obviously the better team isn't going to win that game, cause things just aren't going right for the yankees. Or say its the bottom of the ninth and a man on third, one out, the batter hits a pop up to the center fielder and the runner on third tries to score, but the yankee center fielder guns him out at the plate but the umpire calls him safe, even though he was out and Houston wins. it is hard to explain but i have done my best and i hope this helps.
Does anyone know a sports player, (baseball, football, or basketball) with a first name that starts with "Z?"
We are playing that game were you start with a name and then say a name that starts with the first letter of the last name, i.e. Andy PettittePlaxico Burress, Barry Zito, ????????