Popularity of baseball: Requires even less attention. 2 second pitch. 60 second break. 2 second pitch, 0.5 second swing. 4 seconds of running. 60 second break. The only sport where you can go watch a game live and STILL fall asleep.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:44 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Medic <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't represent the sport. At no time have I ever been charged with > such > > a > > task. > > > > The reason it will never catch on in the US is because the US generally > has > > too short of an attention span. That's why they like US football. Lots of > > meat headed adrenaline (with protective gear suitable for military > > conflict) and you only have to pay attention for like 20 seconds then > they > > blow the whistle and you get around 5 minutes to rest your weary brain. > > > > Oh? > > Then explain the popularity of baseball. > > You aint gonna be able to reduce it down to one simple reason...especially > not some blatantly incorrect over-generalization about our attention spans > :) > > A guy on the radio here yesterday made an interesting point that might have > some validity to it though....soccer is one of the only "fluid" sports. It > starts, goes on for 90 minutes, then finishes. US sports tend to have > specific plays....well defined situations...scenarios. Innings. Drives. One > team on offense, the other on defense...then it switches, etc. etc. > Soccer's > constant ebb and flow, it's fluid motion, it's back and forth style > seemingly without confine......it's really a different scene then what we > are used to watching in our sports. > > I dunno.....that may be complete BS too. > > -- > Give me spots on my apples > But leave me the birds and the bees > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:321532 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
