Baseball is the boringest sport in the history of boring sports

I've once said something similar very long ago...and I don't think that anymore. I also feel the need to support baseball since it's my bf's fav sport. Needless to say, I've learned to enjoy watching games. At least for 1/2 a game. Sometimes I break out a book.

Baseball actually probably has as much downtown as american football does. About 1/3 of each game is time between plays. Just American football is a contact sport and they have more interesting replays and constant discussions about rookies, and ref calls, and coaches, etc. It helps eat up the time between plays. Baseball just often has alot of quiet empty space between pitches...and is less warlike then football. thus more "boring" for some. Baseball also doesn't require constant watching tbh.

But the player skills are there and admirable. It's just something that is more subtle to a casual fan or amateur, I think. Baseball is not a game which holds a spectator's attention by constant physical action of driving down a field and movement like basketball, hockey, soccer, or football does. It is a game in which much of the tension is quiet and builds behind the scenes. But, if you understand what is going on behind the scenes on each pitch and play, and how the game is developing throughout the game and over the course of a season, baseball isn't so boring. Baseball also takes some endurance. Games are often and long. Stars of the teams also don't necessarily start more often then others. for example: The starting pitcher on a team might be different 5 times in five days. And The effort and opportunity and events of singular players is extraordinary in baseball...and potential of each play. I like that part.

Part of my appreciation comes from understanding what it means at a high skill level. For example: Professionals are hitting 90 -95 mph balls, while I was hitting 30mph balls as a kid and just trying to hit it as hard and as far as I could in left field or between outfielders anywhere, you know (I was not big into baseball as a kid-I was more a volleyball/soccer kid)? Same thing with catching, base running, fielding, and throwing skills.There's a higher level of skill involved. I have a friend who trains with a professional, and understanding the training that is done helps me appreciate the work and skill that goes into the sport at a high level. Watching it all come together can be awesome just like in any sport.

Golf, lol.

Begone sinner!!! Baseball is all!!!

I love baseball! I love all sports actually.

It's the whole challenge of hitting a thrown round ball with a round bat, and hitting it squarely! 🧐

Soccer, golf, and drag racing are more boring in my opinion.

Um, no. That would be football.

Baseball is the greatest game ever created. The bases are a perfect 90 feet apart, the pitching mound sixty feet six inches from home plate. The game changes on every pitch, those who can't see this are clueless.

The modern game has changed it a bit, with the commercialism and their leftist overlords. But still a grand game if you actually watch it with a brain which thinks.

Spectator sports.
Tennis?
Golf?
Curling?

Baseball is the overall favorite in our household. There are different sports to entertain different fans. We're sticking to America's pastime.

[c=#4C0073]if you say "boringest" quickly and repetitively, it could sound like a musical instrument 😁 ✌️ [/c]

Uh hummm. Cricket

Sometimes to get it, you have to have played the sport, then you get it and it's not boring. It's the skill and strategy part and the social aspect of it, you can have a conversation and not miss anything

I tried to like the game as a kid and even fantasized about being a professional player, but I couldn’t catch the ball or hit the ball as they got faster. With no motivation to continue I opted out of the game and never enjoyed watching it on tv.

We need rollerball. It is the perfect sport, and all they did was make a movie about it.

I find almost every sport to be a snooze fest. Hockey- they actually set time aside so they can fight. WTF?

It’s fun to play, horrible to watch

You haven't watched NASCAR then

Soccer is worse

It's a time killer.

There's a baseball game on British TV now .Reds at Cubs.Going to watch it.

Football is way more boring and has way more downtime I between plays.

Don't forget golf either. Anyone who can sit and watch golf must have been born with a lobotomy.

Yes it is... only thing worse is soccer