Golf and baseball

[gae]

Jumper played in CA; GS is jealous.

Can someone please try to explain to me what's so damned much fun about playing golf?

Seemingly reasonable people spend a whole bunch of money for a bag of sticks to chase a little white ball around manicured grass.

And WTH are Diamond seats? Trav and I went to the last game at the old place, and I swear that the game took about 10 years. Football is bad enough, but at least in between the (ahem) "adjusting" they actually run and stuff.

Golf? Baseball? Feh.

[cincygreg]

I dont golf, and I have trouble watching it without getting bored. I understand that the guys on the tour and the women on their tour are very skilled at what they do, but it just doesnt do anything for me.

I LOVE BASEBALL!
An afternoon watching the cuubies to me is an afternoon well spent. I'll watch other teams and other games, but I love my cubbies.

Football, Baseball and Hoops (in no specific order) are my three favorite major sports. I also like tennis (I know some people feel about tennis the way I feel about golf) and horse racing.

I know wrasslin is sports entertainment, but I still like it.

Actually I'll at least try to watch most sports at least once to get a better understanding.


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[LanDroid]

Golf is the most challenging sport of 'em all! Actually golf is quite a few sports rolled into one. Driving is totally different from long irons, which are totally different from short irons, chipping, putting, reading the green, club selection, extrication from deep woods, getting rid of a hook or slice, playing the fade, finding a long line in front of the first tee and getting wasted before the first shot then crashing the cart on the second hole, losing the bleeping ball, needing a shovel to repair the sand trap, wondering if the last hole was a quadruple or quintuple bogey, spoiling a good walk, scoring a par then four-putting the next hole, stomping the ball into the turf, hitting three in a row into the drink and laying seven a three wood away from the green, thwacking a club around a tree, tossing the rest of the bag into a water hazard, plus having the spouse laugh years later about the ball lost high up in a tree.

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[Lew]

That's why pro wrestling is the greatest sport of them all.....you can legitimately whack people in the back with a folding chair....

[cincygreg]

Another thing about golf, is that many times, the equiptment is what makes the player better.

A football is still a football.
Though sometimes a little livlier, a baseball is still a baseball and they still use wood bats.

There's a million brands of clubs and balls for golf, and though they have to meet certain standards (I guess) they arent all basically the same.

[Lew]

A friend of mine had a long-standing debate over the proverbial 'most difficult thing' in sport. I argued the cliched (but true) hitting a baseball. He argued getting a hole-in-one. Actually, it was apples and oranges since I was referring to a physical action, he was referring to a result. But, I always looked at it this way....

I could stand at the foul-line and make a free throw. I could drill the 9-ball into the side pocket. I could, theoretically, get a hole-in-one.

If Randy Johnson is throwing, I cannot and will not hit the ball, period, end of story, and it doesn't matter how many chances I get.

But, you can't explain nothin' to nobody....

[cincygreg]

I always though it was getting to the bathroom and back without missing a pitch. LOL!

Actually, I'd have to agree that hitting a baseball may be the most dificult, that and being on the bottom of a fumble pile. [img]eek.gif[/img]


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[travelinman]

Martial arts are the hardest.

While breaking boards and fighting are not that difficult, walking, sleeping and doing just about anything without constant pain is impossible.

[cincygreg]

I'm thinking that returning a 100+ MPH serve is probably up there somewhere as well.


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