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Really? I'm not into watching pro sports, but if I had to pick the most boring one it'd definitely be baseball. People barely even move, and at least in golf th

Really? I'm not into watching pro sports, but if I had to pick the most boring one it'd definitely be baseball. People barely even move, and at least in golf they manage to hit the ball somewhere basically every swing.

smcl 5y ago
May I introduce you to: Cricket Like a more sedate baseball but slower and longer
- lordnacho 5y ago
  Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days. This is also the best sport to show in an office, because people don't watch anything but the wickets. I used to work on a trading floor where they showed it all day on a screen, no problem.
  - smcl 5y ago
    The sport is not my cup of tea but I recently listened to a (sadly paywalled) episode of the TrashFuture podcast which gave me a newfound respect for Cricket. There's a ~10 minute preview of it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-britainology-28-cricket-feat-alan-white https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-britainolog... Oh speaking of tea, a thing non-Cricket-knowers might enjoy is that a cricket match will traditionally stop for "tea" during the game. Players will go into a pavilion, have some cakes and sandwiches then resume play a little later.
  - lostlogin 5y ago
    > Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days. Not sure you’d wear that in NZ or Australia during the summer. Or maybe the purists would, strange game.
mauvehaus 5y ago
“Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game” - Edward Abbey For what it's worth (vanishingly little), I say that basketball is the most boring sport: everyone runs to one end of the court and somebody shoots and does or doesn't score, then everyone runs to the other end of the court and the same thing happens. This repeats until the last minute or so on the clock, which takes an unbounded amount of time to play because of fouls and free throws.
- brewdad 5y ago
  This is why I stopped watching NBA. It's largely become a 3 point contest with an occasional dunk from a fast break or defensive lapse. At least the college kids sometimes miss their shots. :)
- alistairSH 5y ago
  True for the NBA and most of the college season. But March Madness is always entertaining. IMO, of course.

smcl 5y ago

May I introduce you to: Cricket Like a more sedate baseball but slower and longer

lordnacho 5y ago
Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days. This is also the best sport to show in an office, because people don't watch anything but the wickets. I used to work on a trading floor where they showed it all day on a screen, no problem.
- smcl 5y ago
  The sport is not my cup of tea but I recently listened to a (sadly paywalled) episode of the TrashFuture podcast which gave me a newfound respect for Cricket. There's a ~10 minute preview of it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-britainology-28-cricket-feat-alan-white https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-britainolog... Oh speaking of tea, a thing non-Cricket-knowers might enjoy is that a cricket match will traditionally stop for "tea" during the game. Players will go into a pavilion, have some cakes and sandwiches then resume play a little later.
- lostlogin 5y ago
  > Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days. Not sure you’d wear that in NZ or Australia during the summer. Or maybe the purists would, strange game.

mauvehaus 5y ago

“Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game” - Edward Abbey For what it's worth (vanishingly little), I say that basketball is the most boring sport: everyone runs to one end of the court and somebody shoots and does or doesn't score, then everyone runs to the other end of the court and the same thing happens. This repeats until the last minute or so on the clock, which takes an unbounded amount of time to play because of fouls and free throws.

brewdad 5y ago
This is why I stopped watching NBA. It's largely become a 3 point contest with an occasional dunk from a fast break or defensive lapse. At least the college kids sometimes miss their shots. :)
alistairSH 5y ago
True for the NBA and most of the college season. But March Madness is always entertaining. IMO, of course.