Let's admit it, people look at baseball and see it as a slow sport - "My god, another pitching change?". People also look at cycling and see it as boring - "It doesn't look like they are riding hard when they have their jerseys stuffed with water bottles".
On the surface, both sports can make most sleepy (except that the grand tours start in the early morning). What's great about baseball and bicycle racing are the nuances of the sport: is the pitcher "on" tonight? is the pressure getting to him? did that leadout train drop their sprinter off too early? bringing in the left hander made sense for those first two batters but what about the next three? with only two teammates over the last 50km has the team leader been able to hydrate and eat for the next climb? and, so on.
Another exciting aspect of both sports is the arousal levels of the athletes/ players. Sunday saw the Giants blow out the Royals, and Tuesday saw the reversal. I doubt the baseball manager is yelling at his players to pump them up before their game. The fans yell at the players, but the fans "get" the nuances of the sport (right?).
I would love to see tonight's game come down to the 9th inning, so that we can watch the real pressure that these players are under. If that happens, it would be like what cycling fans got to see with the 1989 Tour de France where it came down to the final meters of the final 21st stage time trial when Greg LeMond beat Lauren Fignon by just eight seconds, after 87 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds of racing over three weeks. Truly, one of our sports most exciting moments!
Larry Nolan, Team Specialized Juniors Director
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