Ok, first of all, I just want to say, I LOVE baseball. This post is not meant to disparage the game, the traditions, even its professional leagues (although maybe they deserve it right now).
But the other night while I was falling asleep it occurred to me just how strange this game truly is.
For example: back-and-forth games like football, soccer, rugby, basketball, hockey. These games have two teams on opposing sides of a field (or rink, or court but basically rectangular space) and in a sense, there is such an appeal because its like two armies on the field of battle. How many times in football certainly do we hear this comparison? Like how these "battle" sports replicate our primitive interests in fighting on an open space like cavemen, the Middle Ages, etc.
Then there's baseball: played on a diamond, guys hitting a ball and trying to get around bases before he's "out", guy trying to throw a ball past a hitter and all of it.
What is this sport possibly replicating in human society? I can't really think of a situation why we would be so interested in such a game. What is shaped like a diamond in real life? Nothing. In what situations are you actually trying to outrun others before they throw a ball (or rock, or something...) to someone else?
Its just plain bizarre. I'm sure there are writings on it but it makes you think.
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Jordon Roy Gowans on June 28, 2008, 1:13 PM
Then there is skateboarding. Since when do any people need to be able to do McTwists in halfpipes, or ride huge rails, or jump vast, dangerous gaps? Skateboarders are just show-offs. However, I have done a few sweet skateboard tricks but baseball is practically impossible for me to play. Therefore baseball is more gay than skateboarding.
Jordon Roy Gowans on June 28, 2008, 1:18 PM
Just kidding. Pretty much everything we humans do has some element of lameness. For example, people who wear clothes representing teams or athletes they neither monitor or try to match in achievement with, are gay. I used to be one of those people. The Yankee baseball cap is a classic example. I used to have one, like a lot of people still do, even though I never watched a single Yankee game in my entire life. We humans are so gay, in our gayness.
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