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Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by madcaptenor »

OkayPhysicist wrote: post #56
ghaff wrote: post #31

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American football is probably pretty straightforward at a very basic level. (And very complex as you dig deeper--coverages, penalties though even the refs seemingly don't understand them a lot of the time, man in motion rules. A lot it's simplified because at any serious level, players do their thing and don't violate most a the less straightforward points that much. I think rugby is pretty similar. As someone who re…

All the polo-likes (Hockey, Soccer, Water-polo, etc.) are extremely simple, only complicated by definitions of fowls and offsides and the ilk.

Basketball, too.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by plorkyeran »

freedomben wrote: post #79
com2kid wrote: post #76

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I'm a born American and I don't know the detailed rules to football. Baseball is conceptually easy though. Football seems super messed up with a clock that never seems to end and a game that is 90% commercial breaks.

> Football seems super messed up with a clock that never seems to end I'm guessing you haven't watched much football then. I'm not saying that as an insult or anything, just a guess. There are plenty of weird things about the game, but the clock isn't one of them IMHO. The clock always runs while the ball is in play. It stops until the start of the next play when a player goes out of bounds or throws an incomplete pa…

The weird part about football's clock is how the last two minutes sometimes take at long as the first 13 minutes of the quarter, so if you're only half paying attention to the game while hanging out with people it seems like the clock is going down at a steady pace and then it just stops going down.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by brudgers »

ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #27

No matter how many videos or articles I've read, I still can't wrap my head around the rules of baseball. Is there any guide for us non-americans to help us gain enough grasp on the rules to, at least, understand the dynamics of the game? Learning the basic of (american) football was much easier. I'm not writing any treaties any time soon, but at least I can follow the games and enjoy the "craftsmanship" of the playe…

Baseball is America’s national pastime.

That baseball also happens to be a sport is incidental.

The dynamics come from its being a pastime. At its core it has traditionally been unhurried and the game can fall into the background for spectators.

As a sport baseball is explicitly statistical with a sample size of 162 games at the top level.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by NobodyNada »

plorkyeran wrote: post #82
freedomben wrote: post #79

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> Football seems super messed up with a clock that never seems to end I'm guessing you haven't watched much football then. I'm not saying that as an insult or anything, just a guess. There are plenty of weird things about the game, but the clock isn't one of them IMHO. The clock always runs while the ball is in play. It stops until the start of the next play when a player goes out of bounds or throws an incomplete pa…

The weird part about football's clock is how the last two minutes sometimes take at long as the first 13 minutes of the quarter, so if you're only half paying attention to the game while hanging out with people it seems like the clock is going down at a steady pace and then it just stops going down.

This is because the final few minutes of a contended game are the most strategically complex, as the teams are fighting not just for scoring and control of the ball but also for control of the clock. Usually, the team that's behind is trying to slow down the clock (minimizing time-per-play and maximizing actions that require the clock to stop between plays), while the team that's ahead is trying to run out the clock to seal their win (unless their opponent is likely to score, in which case they may want to slow the clock so they have time to respond, etc). And since the stakes are so high, the teams spend a lot more huddle time to deliberate strategy, as well as going for more complicated or unusual plays that often require more careful review from the refs.

It's by far the most interesting part of the game, but if you're only passively watching and waiting for it to be over, it can feel agonizingly slow.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by fsckboy »

xupybd wrote: post #23

A test cricket match can last for up to five days and is the longest format of the game, with each team having two innings. Each day consists of about 90 overs and typically lasts for 6-7 hours, including lunch and tea breaks.

i'm no expert on cricket, but an ordinary game is "1 baseball inning" with one team running through its "batters" (i don't know cricket terminology except googly) and then the other team running through its batters.

it would be useful to know how long such I game usually lasts—I have attended onesuch, and they did break for tea but it did draw to a close in one afternoon—and what differences there are with this longer format of which you speak.

is it just the additional inning that makes for such an extended weeklong outing?

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by 3eb7988a1663 »

simpaticoder wrote: post #34
bluedino wrote: post #18

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9 beers is a lot but it's not THAT many. - a drunk

It's a lot, but not egregiously so especially when you consider it's spread over 3 hours. That's 3 beers an hour for 3 hours...if you're big (like over 200lb) you're going to be drunk but certainly upright. If you're smaller, well, results may vary.

Maybe it is my Wisconsin upbringing, but three beers an hour is not even a notable level of intake. Moving at a good clip, sure, but in no way a record setting kind of ordeal.

There are Power Hours which is a shot of beer every minute. Depending on the cleanliness of the pour, available glasses, you are looking at 5-7 beers in an hour.

Re: The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win

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Post by com2kid »

freedomben wrote: post #79
com2kid wrote: post #76

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I'm a born American and I don't know the detailed rules to football. Baseball is conceptually easy though. Football seems super messed up with a clock that never seems to end and a game that is 90% commercial breaks.

> Football seems super messed up with a clock that never seems to end I'm guessing you haven't watched much football then. I'm not saying that as an insult or anything, just a guess. There are plenty of weird things about the game, but the clock isn't one of them IMHO. The clock always runs while the ball is in play. It stops until the start of the next play when a player goes out of bounds or throws an incomplete pa…

It is confusing because if the clock says 30 minutes left the game won't be over in 30 actual minutes.

The actual time left in a game mine as well be RNG for all the meaning the clock has.

Baseball doesn't have a clock and doesn't pretend to. The game is over under very clear circumstances, 3 outs per inning, top and bottom, 9 innings per game.

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