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Originally Posted by D-Red
I know it comes across as an "I'm better than you comment" but that's definitely not how I meant it. I'm just saying that when you take the time to learn the insides out of the game you are constantly analyzing, as opposed to as you mention, waiting. Pitches setting up pitches, grips, shifts, leads. Is a guy hitting his spots? Where is he pitching certain batters? How are the breaks on the pitches? What are they doing to win probability with each minuscule decision made. When you don't stop thinking how can you be bored?
I liken the education thing to when I'm watching soccer or basketball. I can't stand it and I'm bored out of my tree because all I see is run run shoot miss, run run, shoot two points, run run shoot two points, or 3 hours of jogging. In reality there's more going on that true fans see that makes it much more interesting to millions of people, that I simply just don't care enough to learn.
Having said all of that I do agree high tempo sports like hockey are much easier to get into and get excited about, especially for the casual fan. I would just never refer to baseball as boring. Especially this time of year.
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Chess requires great strategy and complex problem solving but that doesn't make it interesting to observe. Baseball is the same, yes it is actually quite complex but even learning a lot of the subtleties still leaves it as very slow.
I don't know why we're even talking about this anyways, it's the game day thread for the jets and flames and the thread is overwhelmingly about baseball. Go make a jays thread in the off topic so people like me, whose best part of the day is the hockey game, can engage in hockey talk.