Cubs sign Shane Victorino to minor league deal

[biittner77]

Part of the appeal for football has to be that you have a pretty good idea that something is going to happen on every play. The action has a defined beginning and end. Baseball is all about the build up to the action. Every pitch could end up in something exciting happening or pretty much nothing happening.

 

The other appeal that football has is that you're effectively watching a week's worth of games in 3 hours. That makes the games much more intense. Baseball has moments of intensity but these are limited to certain situations.

[Thusly Boned]

Part of the appeal for football has to be that you have a pretty good idea that something is going to happen on every play. The action has a defined beginning and end. Baseball is all about the build up to the action. Every pitch could end up in something exciting happening or pretty much nothing happening.

 

The other appeal that football has is that you're effectively watching a week's worth of games in 3 hours. That makes the games much more intense. Baseball has moments of intensity but these are limited to certain situations.

 

Right. To be clear, I'm not saying football is only for idiots, but that idiots are more likely to gravitate to football than baseball. Idiots often get bored of baseball because of the traits you mentioned. Football simply has a broader appeal, and as such, a greater portion of its fans are very casual.

[jersey cubs fan]

Part of the appeal for football has to be that you have a pretty good idea that something is going to happen on every play. The action has a defined beginning and end. Baseball is all about the build up to the action. Every pitch could end up in something exciting happening or pretty much nothing happening.

 

The other appeal that football has is that you're effectively watching a week's worth of games in 3 hours. That makes the games much more intense. Baseball has moments of intensity but these are limited to certain situations.

 

Right. To be clear, I'm not saying football is only for idiots, but that idiots are more likely to gravitate to football than baseball. Idiots often get bored of baseball because of the traits you mentioned. Football simply has a broader appeal, and as such, a greater portion of its fans are very casual.

Baseball players are the world's dumbest athletes. Plenty of idiots are drawn to baseball.

 

65,000 people get to attend a football game 8 times a year. Baseball has all sorts of broadly clueless casual fans.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I think we can all agree that Football and the NFL is the worst and should be eradicated from the public consciousness as soon as possible while Baseball is the one true and perfect sport and should remain forever and ever amen.

[Thusly Boned]

Part of the appeal for football has to be that you have a pretty good idea that something is going to happen on every play. The action has a defined beginning and end. Baseball is all about the build up to the action. Every pitch could end up in something exciting happening or pretty much nothing happening.

 

The other appeal that football has is that you're effectively watching a week's worth of games in 3 hours. That makes the games much more intense. Baseball has moments of intensity but these are limited to certain situations.

 

Right. To be clear, I'm not saying football is only for idiots, but that idiots are more likely to gravitate to football than baseball. Idiots often get bored of baseball because of the traits you mentioned. Football simply has a broader appeal, and as such, a greater portion of its fans are very casual.

Baseball players are the world's dumbest athletes. Plenty of idiots are drawn to baseball.

 

65,000 people get to attend a football game 8 times a year. Baseball has all sorts of broadly clueless casual fans.

 

Did I say otherwise? Of course there are, how else do you account for Cardinals fans? But football is the most popular sport in the country by a large margin, and it isn't because all or most of those people are students of the game who enjoy the strategic nuance. It's because it has a broader appeal than pretty much any other North American sport. Because of its pace and nature (far fewer people would call it "boring", I'd wager), it's more appealing to the casual fan. I fail to see how this is a controversial position at all, unless a knowledgeable fan feels defensive because they think it's an indictment of them somehow.

 

Every sport has a preponderance of idiot fans, that goes without saying. Frankly, being a sports fan of any type isn't a particularly intellectual pursuit. None of them are really all that complex, and being emotionally invested in something extraneous and over which one has zero control is pretty dumb on its face, but here we are.

 

As far as which sport has the dumbest athletes, I'm gonna need a citation for the claim that baseball does. Not that I think that baseball has genius players, but because pretty much all professional athletes fall onto the same spectrum of dimness. I've watched hundreds of post game interviews, press conferences, etc. over the years, and they all sound like the same breed of caveman to me.

[Thusly Boned]

I think we can all agree that Football and the NFL is the worst and should be eradicated from the public consciousness as soon as possible

 

No, that's hockey.

[biittner77]

I think we can all agree that Football and the NFL is the worst and should be eradicated from the public consciousness as soon as possible

 

No, that's hockey.

 

Inaccurate.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmXacL0Uny0

[JudasIscariotTheBird]

So, Victorino has been told that he can rehab his calf in Mesa and then would be offered a spot in AAA. And with this talk of Bryant being a late game LF defensive shift, (presumably with Baez at 3B) the return of Murton (almost strictly as a bat off the bench) is still a possibility!!! \:D/

[JennieGarthAlgar]

I really think Murton's only path to the team before rosters expand is with an injury or trade of Soler and even then, no guarantees.

[Rob]

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[BigSlick]

I kinda really hate Shane Victorino so I don't want him to make the team for totally petty reasons

 

If Munanori Kawasaki could get a job just sitting on the bench and never playing, that would be great