Re: Last person to post on this thread wins 7
All American sports are getting too predictable, they were all much better back 30 years ago.
Ice Hockey is interesting... but never for the game.
I don't mind watching Basketball, only problem is the aforementioned predictability. American sports are so stats based that you can pretty much go that Basketball team has the best defender in the league. He will save 1 in 4 attempts. The other team will save 1 in 6. Since basketball is pretty much tennis when you watch the scores go by, you can predict the win.
Same with Baseball. With the player trading schemes the teams can be incredibly equal, especially when you get to the World Series. The skill levels are incredibly high, incredibly, but then you hit a wall and there simply just aren't those great players. There will never be a hope of the Bradman of Baseball, and there isn't such a thing as even a Tendulkar of Baseball now. Pitchers are a bit different... if you can get a decent game that is. The fielding is too good. They record fielding errors, and you are lucky to get 2 errors a season out of most of them, couple of shortstops have no errors after 20 games. This means that with the small sizes of a baseball ground covered by brilliant fielders you are looking at luck mostly to even get a single, let alone a run. The last 4 games I watched the highest amount of runs I saw was 4, far from the old days of getting 10 runs per nine innings.
After that I still watch these three sports for some odd reason
And I should probably stop typing...
All American sports are getting too predictable, they were all much better back 30 years ago.
Ice Hockey is interesting... but never for the game.
I don't mind watching Basketball, only problem is the aforementioned predictability. American sports are so stats based that you can pretty much go that Basketball team has the best defender in the league. He will save 1 in 4 attempts. The other team will save 1 in 6. Since basketball is pretty much tennis when you watch the scores go by, you can predict the win.
Same with Baseball. With the player trading schemes the teams can be incredibly equal, especially when you get to the World Series. The skill levels are incredibly high, incredibly, but then you hit a wall and there simply just aren't those great players. There will never be a hope of the Bradman of Baseball, and there isn't such a thing as even a Tendulkar of Baseball now. Pitchers are a bit different... if you can get a decent game that is. The fielding is too good. They record fielding errors, and you are lucky to get 2 errors a season out of most of them, couple of shortstops have no errors after 20 games. This means that with the small sizes of a baseball ground covered by brilliant fielders you are looking at luck mostly to even get a single, let alone a run. The last 4 games I watched the highest amount of runs I saw was 4, far from the old days of getting 10 runs per nine innings.
After that I still watch these three sports for some odd reason
And I should probably stop typing...
