The dead period in sports...unless your baseball fan

[WCSPlayedWRInHS]

It's so hard to be a Reds fan.They have an exciting lineup but their pitchers are terrible.

They never can seem to get both things going. Either they have the pitching but the offense stinks or vice versa.

 

[Bryo72]

Dodge ball on the ocho.

Absolutely

 

[Bryo72]

Yeah I'm honestly bored out of my mind. I like baseball but it's such a long haul and games are so long that if your team is hopeless like mine, it's reallllllly hard to follow unless you're a real die hard.

Reds

 

[Bryo72]

I said Disco. Bailey? The most inconsistent SP of all time? Now coming off another injury. Garret? Started well, been knocked around pretty good lately. Finnegan looks ok.

Garret has a 6.00 ERA
Finnegan lifetime 3.76 ERA

For me, reading a Mike Tyson auto from Ollie's... Until football/bball crank up...

 

[Bryo72]

I do miss true heavyweight boxing...or middleweight...I grew up with Tyson, Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran etc

 

[WCSPlayedWRInHS]

I never get the "baseball games are so long" thing.

Games in all sports have gotten too long, yes. Although it is not the games themselves, it is the TV timeouts/commercials added so the leagues can make more money.
But your average MLB game lasts 3:00.
While your average NFL & college football games last 3:10.
But you don't see people complain about their length. Why not?
Is it because they are so action packed?
Your average football game has 11-15 minutes of action. I'm not saying baseball has a lot more action (if you don't like to watch a pitcher work, & you only want to see the ball in play), but it's not significantly less either. I do have to admit football has one major advantage, that it's stops in play are regular & known. You know after a play you have 30-45 seconds to get a drink, talk to your friends, get on your smart phone, whatever, and then the next play happens. In baseball you don't know which pitch the hitter is going to hit, so it is more unpredictable when the ball will be in play. Another advantage in football is that you just need to watch 1 day a week and be pretty informed. That doesn't work in baseball.

the issue for me is that each team plays like 5-6 games a week. Like I said, I enjoy baseball but I'm just not gonna waste a ton of time following a 162 game schedule when my team isn't gonna make the playoffs. That said, I did just drop 350+ on reds tickets for September so I'm still trying to be a fan even if I'm not the most die hard reds fan around lol.

 

[CalsKittens]

Nothing wrong with Hockey either. Go Predators.