After watching several World Cup soccer games and then reading local newspaper descriptions that used such terms as “inaction,” “boring” and “uninteresting,” I decided to watch America’s game–baseball–to learn more about true game excitement.
During my TV viewing I noted the following:
– Outfielders spend the majority of their time pounding their fists into their gloves, scratching various parts of their bodies and gazing at people in the stands, clouds in the sky and an occasional passing airplane.
– Pitchers and catchers use a complicated system of finger signals plus head nods and shakes that take considerable time between every pitch.
– Managers frequently call conferences in the middle of game action to instruct the players what to do next.
– The intentional walk is loaded with suspense–no one knows if the catcher can move fast enough to catch a pitch delivered several feet wide of the plate.
Undoubtedly there were other exciting moments, but I fell asleep after the sixth inning.
