10 Reasons Why Baseball is Better than Hockey

Pro: Hockey
1. Haven't you ever watched a baseball game and not wished there was a "pitch clock" or "scratch your balls clock" or any other type of time limit in baseball? You're right, a longer game is totally a better game.

2. Let me reiterate: baseball players are CAN be pussies. Sure, there are a few athletes scattered amoung the ranks, but man, Milton Bradley tore his ACL arguing with an ump? These people would rather take steroids than, say, work out on a daily basis.

3. You don't stand around in hockey. Ever. Baseball, about 90% of the time is spent waiting for something to happen. Really. Let's say a pitch takes about 2 sec to deliver, 3 sec to return, and if hit, about 10-20 sec to come to rest after being hit (assuming a fat DH isn't loafing around the bases after a home run). At ~250 pitches,

4. Last time I checked modern dentistry coupled with advanced mouth guards means there are very few hockey players missing teeth. After 18 years of hockey (the last three of which in a paid setting) I have a dental history of ONE CAVITY.

5. Green vs White. Yes. Grass is green and ice (when painted white to enhance contrast with the puck facilitating peripheral vision) is white. I'm glad you learned your colors so late in life. My, what a objective basis of comparison. If it would make you happy, we could paint the ice green or neon pink.

6. Hockey players can travel at speeds exceeding 35 mph in all directions, shoot pucks at speeds greater than 100 mph, and do so in a controlled, strategic fashion. Baseball is more like a life-sized board game. That's why you can get drunk while watching it and not miss a thing.

7. Yes hockey players fight. Name a sport in which you don't. Golf doesn't count. I wouldn't call baseball fights "fights", more like slapping tiffs between two overpaid shlubs.

8. Joe Lewis Arena, Madison Square Garden, Mellon Arena, and others. Oh, and you shouldn't include Yankee Stadium on your list since it was demolished last year.

That's all for now. American pastime..... kinda like watching tv on the couch and not learning anything beyond hitting a ball with a stick.

i just had an argument with a kid about this the other day. He said, "how could you hate baseball, it's America's past time?"

I immediately replied with "that's why our obesity rate is so much higher than every other country" then i walked off. he had nothing to say because he's about 50 pounds over weight