I am slowly being converted into a baseball fan. It started with my manager at my high school job being a die-hard Red Sox fan and turning me on to the sport, and continues now with my roommate, a die-hard Twins fan, turning me on to the Twinkies. It's gotten to the point where I do my best to watch every Twins fan I can, though I am still learning all the goofy rules and terms that go along with a sport.
However, even with my growing appreciation for the "American past-time", I still cannot ever see it moving above football, lacrosse, or college basketball on my list of sporting priorities. It's not that I think baseball players are less athletic (although one does have to question how someone like David "Boomer" Wells can be considered an athlete...) or less talented. I just cannot become passionate about a sport that is afraid of a little cold or wet weather.
When you think of famous NFL games, some of the top spots belong to games that have been played in ridiculous terrible weather. The Rams and the Vikings squaring off in the "Mud Bowl", the Packers and Cowboys playing in the Ice Bowl, the Bears and Eagles in The Fog Bowl, etc. etc. However, it seems baseball players refuse to play in any sort of bad weather at all.
So far, 17 baseball games have been called in the infant stages of the MLB season. I can somewhat understand snow; it's pretty hard to see an all-white spheroid amongst a crap ton of snowflakes. But rain? Sorry you don't wanna get mud on your pretty uniforms. And don't get me started on canceling a game cause it's too cold. Put on a sweater you freaking pansies.
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Understandable complaint. However, I would argue that it's not the players, but more the league, the players association and the umpires that make the call on the game cancellation. With how slippery the fields are, think of the kind of financial repercussions that would come from a player pulling ligaments on a soggy field.
Also, as you know, Mr. Vikings fan, some football teams aren't so good in sloppy weather. jk bff.
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