PHILLIES WIN THE PENNANT
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Re: jonatne (above)
I don't watch baseball like I watch football nowadays but I grew up playing baseball. Played it for 15 years to be exact, from a child to my senior year in high school.
"It's hardly a sport"??? ". Sorry man gotta disagree, they run around bases, not jog. Stealing a base is sprinting.You have to have great hand and eye coordination. More than soccer, more than football. As much coordination as tennis or golf. You need strength to hit home runs. Skinny weak players do not hit home runs. It's like boxing, strength and weight is what creates power and force. You may have 'thought' Ken Griffey Jr was skinny but that dude was D as hell.
Ever throw a baseball? Do you know how hard it is to throw over 90 mph? I always thought I threw fast, but I could barely break 80 throwing a wild uncontrolled throw. MLB pitchers are VERY strong. It takes a lot of torque and strength to throw that fast.
Granted, it's not like American Football which obviously takes all kinds of things but you definitely need to be extremely athletic to play it like the pro's. Soccer, which is an extremely athletic sport, doesn't use any upper body. Golf, which really doesn't use and strength, uses just hand and eye coordination. They're all sports though. And if they weren't a sport and were so easy, you wouldn't be sitting at a desk making posts on some internet forum. You'd be making the big bucks.
Sorry man, have to disagree completely.
Oh yeah, Philly Rox! Go Phills! Gotta go and try and get some tix now...
- Futbol (soccer) doesnt use any upper body? That's not quite right. You will be surprise. Good points thoughnumero1