OT - I'm bored

[Destroydacre]

Hitting a ball has nothing to do with it being mental. Having good hand eye coordination helps a lot more than anything.

How many quarterbacks can make a completion on every play while reading the defense with people rushing towards you?

Sure, but it also helps if you can anticipate what pitch your opponent is going to throw and where he tends to locate his pitches in certain counts. Players spend a lot of time watching video to find out pitcher's tendencies in certain counts and situations. It's no guarantee, but there is a mental aspect to it. Of course you're right as well that if you have no hand eye coordination, the pitcher could tell you what's coming and you still wouldn't be able to hit it.

 

[ritari330]

Yes, I have played baseball before.

I did alright, nothing special.

Your entitled to your opinion, but I disagree

 

[IPostedWhat]

I agree that both sports have a mental aspect to it. I just think that in football there is more going on because you have more people on the field at one time, and a lot for people to try and read and make a decision in a short amount of time.

Not too mention that you have to worry about getting hit even if you don't have the ball that could lead to a serious injury.

 

[Darkstone42]

Hitting a ball has nothing to do with it being mental. Having good hand eye coordination helps a lot more than anything.

How many quarterbacks can make a completion on every play while reading the defense with people rushing towards you?

Pitchers range from two quality pitches to four quality pitches and from one arm slot to three arm slots for each of them. Speed variability from one pitcher usually ranges from 8 - 15 mph. That's the big key. Hitters look for tips: the way a pitchers grips the ball before he comes set, his arm slot, how long it takes for him to deliver, and then try to pick up the spin on the baseball, gauge the speed, and time and locate the swing. That all happens in a period of about 3 - 5 seconds. That's a lot of calculating, judgment, and guesswork to do in 3 - 5 seconds. And a pitcher is trying to do everything he can to make at least one of those guesses wrong.

Quarterbacks have twice the success hitters do, and that's for a very good reason.

 

[Destroydacre]

Overall I think in the NHL you work for your money more then anything where as in the NFL most of it is coming from the billions of dollars the league makes and not as much as your play every week.

The popularity of the NFL makes a huge difference for sure, you won't get any argument from me on that.

 

[IPostedWhat]

Your entitled to your opinion, but I disagree

So are you saying I was special? Where were you when the coach didn't think so?

 

[HonusWagner66]

Hitting a ball has nothing to do with it being mental.

It does in the majors. I'm not saying which sport is more mental, but hitting a major league pitch has a lot to do with the mental side of things.

Like Yogi Berra once said: Baseball is ninety percent mental, the other half is physical.

 

[flyersfan4706]

The popularity of the NFL makes a huge difference for sure, you won't get any argument from me on that.

Of course. Filling 70,000-100,000 capacity staidums with beer, food, and other stuff plus the huge amount of advertising and fan bases makes a ton of that money I am sure.

 

[ritari330]

So are you saying I was special? Where were you when the coach didn't think so?

That was going back to the original discussion

 

[Darkstone42]

I agree that both sports have a mental aspect to it. I just think that in football there is more going on because you have more people on the field at one time, and a lot for people to try and read and make a decision in a short amount of time.

Not too mention that you have to worry about getting hit even if you don't have the ball that could lead to a serious injury.

Quarterbacks key on safeties, running backs on two of their own linemen, middle linebackers on the fullback, corners on the wide receivers, safeties on the wide receivers, linemen on each other, and outside linebackers on the tight end or running back. In general, no football player on the field (aside from the quarterback late in his progression), has to key on more than two players. And most of their keys are obvious. Middle linebacker follow the fullback, defensive linemen move on first movement of the opposing offensive lineman, offensive linemen usually key to a gap progression, corners key on the wide out in front of them. Sure, there's a lot of mental stuff, and you're screwed if you miss your key, but it's not quite on the level of baseball.

 

[naslundfan19]

Looks like Ted Lilly to the Dodgers tomorrow.

 

[dare2be]

Double whammy! 8900 Popcorn!

 

[Darkstone42]

8900?

EDIT: Rats.

 

[Darkstone42]

Looks like Ted Lilly to the Dodgers tomorrow.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[naslundfan19]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Every one keeps screwing up your plans, huh?

 

[Darkstone42]

Every one keeps screwing up your plans, huh?

The Dodgers would have been the Pirates' best trade partner. Well, I suppose the Padres and Mets will have to do...

 

[IPostedWhat]

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Both sports are mental. I could care less which one people pick before another because none of us are actually in the big leagues in any sport.

 

[ritari330]

I agree that both sports have a mental aspect to it. I just think that in football there is more going on because you have more people on the field at one time, and a lot for people to try and read and make a decision in a short amount of time.

Not too mention that you have to worry about getting hit even if you don't have the ball that could lead to a serious injury.

because that is more mental than hitting a baseball

 

[GagneFire12]

I think there is a scouting aspect in any sport. Players have tendencies, and probability says your chances of succeeding while blind are significantly limited. Football and baseball are both extremely mental, however the situational tact is completely different.

 

[Darkstone42]

I can actually honestly say that rugby is more mental that football, as well. But that's a totally different argument all together.