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Anonymous
Guys it's raining we can't play the most important game of the season any longer. We swear to got baseball isn't a pussy sport.

We swear.
>> Anonymous
Why is this baseball talking to me?
>> Anonymous
even pussier than soccer tbh
>> Anonymous
A lot of Eurofags up late I see.
>> Anonymous
Who the hell is 'got'?
>> Anonymous
Why the fuck don't they just play the damn game in the rain? So it changes how the game is played...who gives a shit? Shouldn't that be part of the game? Are baseball players going to melt if they get wet? WTF
>> Anonymous
>>435632
Some Godlike figure over in Europe.
>> Anonymous
>swear to got
honest to blog
>> Anonymous
ITT pussy baseball apologists sidestep the issue.
>> Anonymous
>>435636

The likelihood of players getting seriously hurt in bad weather is considerable. A pitcher's career could be ruined in an instant if he slipped off the mound -- and many have. People forget that baseball is the only sport where a person has died, on the field, because of a basic fact of play (and not because of a heart attack or other non-play-related incident).
>> Anonymous
The game was official. Imagine if it was called due to weather, and the Phillies were given the win.
>> Anonymous
>>435656


Yeah, baseball is so rough.
>> Anonymous
>>435656

Wasn't that before helmets?
>> Anonymous
>>435656
Bill Masterson 1968 Minnesota North Stars
>> Anonymous
>>436928
Well, he didn't die ON the ice, but died as a direct result of injuries sustained during a game. And was probably braindead before he left the ice.
>> Anonymous
>>435636

The pitchers would die, all the force they put into the ball has to go into the ground and if it is wet the pitcher would trip and horribly injure himself
>> Anonymous
>>436924

Yeah, and spitballs were legal
>> Anonymous
Who cares? Nobody's watching anyway.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports/rss/mlb/SIG=12i8deca5/*http%3A//sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-worl
dseries-ratings&prov=ap&type=lgns
>> Anonymous
>>436944

those are still great ratings
>> Anonymous
>>436954
For a championship of any sport, those ratings blow, sorry. BTW, 1986 WS Game 7 got 38.9/55 for comparison.
>> Anonymous
>>436955

who cares about ratings?

also, that is a game 7, and at a time when baseball was still THE sport.
>> Anonymous
>>436959
Unfortunately, ratings (money) make the sports world go 'round. If you like baseball (I do), this is bad news any way you slice it.
>> Anonymous
You can't see the ball in the rain.
You can't see the ball, it hits you in the face, you die.
>> Anonymous
>>437023


...riiiight...
>> michael moses !!6nOq0Y/J8jv
>>435616
This.

>>436944
And this proves everybody knows it.
>> Anonymous
MLB has the least exciting championship series of the 4 major sports. Raining only makes it worse.
>> Anonymous
>>437035
Damn kids.
>> Anonymous
Television ratings for any sport will never reach the heights they had in the 70s or 80s. Each Super Bowl, the morning after, the media will report on it being the "most-watched" because it had the highest number of viewers; the percentage of people watching is far lower though. Until the late 80s and or even early 90s, cable TV didn't really take a piece out of the big three/big four networks- sports ratings will never be what they once were.

49.1% of all households in the US watched Super Bowl XVI between the Bengals and 49ers in 1982- the most recent Super Bowl, which was supposedly the most watched, had just 43% of households watching.
>> Anonymous
>>437033
shut the fuck up Dave, don't you have picks not against the spread to be making?
>> michael moses !!6nOq0Y/J8jv
>>437047
FUCKING MAKE ME.
>> Anonymous
>>437064
Must be hard seeing which team is on the left hand of the column in the lines published by your local newspaper ...
>> michael moses !!6nOq0Y/J8jv
>>437070
Only faggots read newpapers.
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>437077
Sorry Dave, you probably go to Y! sports
>> michael moses !!6nOq0Y/J8jv
>>437082
Drink Coke. Play again.
>> Anonymous
>>435656

heaven forbid the pitcher slips off the mound and breaks a fingernail
>> Anonymous
>>437087
Protip: favorites/underdogs don't vary between news sources. Dave's picks will always be the favorites from any source.
>> Metsfag No. 124968 !q2ZLb2hZmU
I hate how baseball players are coddled. Throw a fucking complete game. Play in the rain.

MAN THE FUCK UP
>> Anonymous
>>437089


SHUTUP YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND SOMEONE COULD GET HURT BASEBALL IS DANGEROUS
>> Anonymous
>>437089

Protip: The force of a wild 95 MPH fastball to the face is enough to shatter several bones.

Protip: Mud is slippery.

Protip: Slipping = catastrophic injuries and wild pitches.

Protip: Don't play in the rain, faggot.
>> Anonymous
>>437120
Oh no they might slip! Poor baseball players. Have to protect those overpaid wrists and knees, I guess...
>> Anonymous
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fucking fags stand around half the time waiting for someone to hit the ball to them. the other half they are sitting down waiting to get an at bat.
>> Anonymous
>>435656
lul wat?

Boxing? Motorsports?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sportspeople_who_have_died_during_their_playing_career
>> Anonymous
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>>437120

by that logic

protip: the impact between two NFL players running into each other is like a head on car crash.

protip: mud is slippery

protip: slippery = possible injuries

protip: football plays in the rain

they play and they can break knees, necks, arms, etc. every play.

if its raining = PLAY BALL if their panties are in a bunch put on a helmet and fucking play ball. pic related
>> Anonymous
89 Think kinetic energy. A faster pitch brings more kinetic energy to the collision than a slower pitch [KE = 1/2 x m x v-squared]. There is also the notion of conservation of momentum [momentum, or p, = mv]. As v is central to both equations, a greater pitch velocity can only increase both the KE and the momentum that will need be conserved in our ball and bat collision.

Re the curveball versus fastball thing, think backspin versus topspin. Backspin means that the top of the ball spins away from the direction of travel of the ball. Topspin is the opposite.

And think of undercutting the ball, though not by much, since we want as solid a contact as otherwise possible. But if you visualize the undercut ball, you can see that the bat will reverse the spin of a fastball and add to or augment the spin of the curveball.

Why do we care? Because the ball has now changed direction of travel. And so the formerly topspin is now added backspin. And it is the backspin that gives lift.

I hope that this is clearer than mud, but if you visualize the ball spinning with backspin and topspin, and then visualize an undercut contact, you should see that with the fastball, the bat makes contact on the lower half of the ball traveling in the direction opposite the ball's spin, whereas with the curveball, the bat makes contact traveling in same direction as the ball's spin and so adds to or augments the spin. And, again, don't forget, backspin gives lift.
>> Anonymous
I had tickets to game 5 and was going to go but in the morning I heard the weather reports and sold them to some fags on craigslist. Made $800 bucks per ticket for standing room only. Best decision I ever made.
>> Anonymous
>>437188
lol.
>> Anonymous
The reason it's not playable in the rain because it makes the game boring as hell. if the bats are wet, the balls will all be pop ups and fouls. Also it's harder to run the bases with puddles of water all around. Lrn2notbeadumbass.
>> Anonymous
Playing baseball in the rain is retarded. Ball doesn't roll, bat flies out of hands, baseball is hard to throw.

OP has never played baseball.
>> Anonymous
>>437194
You mean it's not boring already? It could be hilarious with rain!
>> michael moses !!6nOq0Y/J8jv
>>437212
>Q_Q Sports are harder in the rain. How doez I grow balls?
>> Anonymous
>>437218

I don't think baseball is boring. Maybe it's because I'm from philadelphia and of course my phillies are in the FUCKING WORLD SERIES!!!!!!
>> Anonymous
TOO BAD THE NL DIDN'T WIN THE ALL-STAR GAME HUH!?
>> Anonymous
>>437253
good point, then we would be watching baseball right now
>> Anonymous
lol @ baseball
This is pathetic.
>> Anonymous
Dear Baseball,

We were pretty excited about your Cinderella story World Series at first. At this point, though, we have moved on to other things like painting the house or getting an early jump on next year's taxes. Better luck next time!

-America
>> Anonymous
>>437241

I like how its called the World Series when there's only Americunt teams in it...
>> Anonymous
>>438140
yeah i never understood that too. The world series, but all the teams are in US or Canada. WTF gives?
>> Anonymous
>>438144

IF YOU THINK YOU CAN BEAT US GET YOUR CHAMPIONS TO PLAY OUR CHAMPIONS
>> Anonymous
>>438153
MLB champ vs Japanese champ would be pretty awesome.
>> headsigh !pPyM90q9.6
if they were gonna end it they could of ended it 2 innings before.

pussies waited for the weather to be complete shit so anyone could score on everything, just so Tampa Bay's feelings weren't hurt.

They shouldn't have ran that game at all if they were just going to yank it because of "RAIN OMG"
>> Anonymous
>>438153


I know you're just being lulzy, but do you EVER think MLB would EVER look into modernizing the game? Ever?

Ever?


MLB is so traditionalist it makes me sick.
>> Anonymous
>>438140
If you have a better team that can beat our baseball World Champs, I'd like to see it.
>> Anonymous
The problem is they need to shorten their damn season. Baseball is meant to be played in the summer, not in late October to early November. Imagine if the Twins make it to the World Series after their outdoor stadium opens? It'll make the games in Philly look like their playing in Hawaii
>> Anonymous
>>438732


Again, baseball is entirely too rooted in tradition to go to a shorter season. They might...MIGHT...consider adding games. lol
>> Anonymous
ITT: Knee-jerk reactionaries try to re-invent the wheel after the first World Series game EVER IN THE HISTORY OF MLB has to be suspended for a little bit.
>> Anonymous
>>438758

No kidding, you try making these decisions, a better thought would be to adjusting the start times of the world series to Time Zones.
>> Anonymous
>>438758


You're right. This sort of thing has happened once in the history of baseball and they can't power through it and play an ugly game. Fuck, it'd probably go down as one of the most interesting games in history.

Instead, baseball stands around with its collective thumb up it's ass because of a little rain. Cute.