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Children Are Abandoning Baseball

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Re: Children Are Abandoning Baseball

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Post by DanBC »

ColinWright wrote: post #60
ColinWright wrote: post #5

Registration required - I can't care enough to bother finding an alternate source. Closed.

Take this as a learning opportunity. Anyone who visits your site and gets irritated by something is likely to close it and leave. And even if they were only there out of idle curiosity, you've just lost a chance to convert them. So enough with the down-votes already - I really just didn't care enough even to click twice more to see what it was about. Telling you that shouldn't be punished, and is absolutely relevant…

HN mods have said that pay-walled links are on topic for HN, and that complaining about pay-walls is off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

Re: Children Are Abandoning Baseball

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Post by ColinWright »

DanBC wrote: post #61
ColinWright wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Take this as a learning opportunity. Anyone who visits your site and gets irritated by something is likely to close it and leave. And even if they were only there out of idle curiosity, you've just lost a chance to convert them. So enough with the down-votes already - I really just didn't care enough even to click twice more to see what it was about. Telling you that shouldn't be punished, and is absolutely relevant…

HN mods have said that pay-walled links are on topic for HN, and that complaining about pay-walls is off topic. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

THANK YOU !!

My original comment wasn't intended to be a complaint about the pay-wall, nor a claim that it was off-topic, although I can see how it may have been taken as such. Having already spent 10 seconds on something I clicked on just out of curiosity, I wasn't then going to spend another minute or five constructing a mini blog post.

However, I will now write something - I think people don't realise the effects caused by some of the web page interactions I see. But a comment buried in thread on a topic I don't care about is not the place to create any kind of fully reasoned position statement.

Thanks for the link - I'll go read that thread when I have some time.

Re: Children Are Abandoning Baseball

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Post by w1ntermute »

firebones wrote: post #37
w1ntermute wrote: post #19

That's because baseball is terribly boring, especially compared to football or basketball. Who wants to spend 90% of the time standing around?

That sounds like American football too. 3.25 hours of clock time, 60 minutes of a game, and 11 minutes of actual action (or closer to 96% of the time standing around.) http://www.sportsonearth.com/article/64441086/nfl-statistica... Good quote: It's curious that few complain about NFL game lengths, considering they take 13 minutes longer, more time than the 11 total minutes of actual game play during an NFL game. In o…

That's if you're watching professional sports on TV. The article is about children playing the sport themselves, so I was referring to playing baseball vs. football or basketball, not watching endless beer/car/fantasy sports commercials interspersed with occasional gameplay.

Re: Children Are Abandoning Baseball

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Post by richmarr »

graeme wrote: post #38
douche wrote: post #16

Let's see... 1.) You need a shit-load of people to play baseball anything like for-real. At minimum 15-20 people for two teams. Pretty tough to do as a kid, unless you're free to roam free all over town to gather a crew, which approximately 0% of kids have license/protection from CPS to do. 2.) You need a big enough area for a baseball diamond, where you don't have to worry about knocking out a window with a foul bal…

Most of these sound good, but aren't true. If you go to poor countries where baseball is popular, you'll see people practicing in the street, with whatever makeshift ball and bat the can find. I saw Cubans practicing with sticks and balls of paper. However, it's difficult to get adults to organize that kind of thing. I wonder if the fact that kids need adults to drive them is a factor. That last bit is speculation. W…

Is baseball is a thing elsewhere?

Aside from Japan, and now apparently Cuba, I haven't heard of it being played anywhere.

Most of the world plays football (soccer for the US folks here).

Re: Children Are Abandoning Baseball

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Post by graeme »

richmarr wrote: post #64
graeme wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these sound good, but aren't true. If you go to poor countries where baseball is popular, you'll see people practicing in the street, with whatever makeshift ball and bat the can find. I saw Cubans practicing with sticks and balls of paper. However, it's difficult to get adults to organize that kind of thing. I wonder if the fact that kids need adults to drive them is a factor. That last bit is speculation. W…

Is baseball is a thing elsewhere? Aside from Japan, and now apparently Cuba, I haven't heard of it being played anywhere. Most of the world plays football (soccer for the US folks here).

A lot of Latin American countries play it, far more intensely than Americans do.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/latinosrise/columns/story?columnist=s...

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