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Omar 382
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um.... link?I spent a bunch of time reading these comments. The issue is whether you need to be good at baseball to understand it. A lefthanded pitcher has almost zero idea how to play shortstop at the professional level. So, there's that.
If you are a basketball player and are 5-feet-8, you will never have a clue what it's like to play competitively in the NBA, even if you were all-state in high school. So the point is, limitations even inside the game will affect your ability to understand it. But if you hang around the game, you will learn to empathize.
Hitting a baseball is hard and no matter how much you practice, if you lack bat speed and vision, you are fucked.
Actually, it's been claimed that you cannot actually teach somebody how to catch a ball in the air. Some people can't do it.
But if you never played, you will really not get a true understanding on how to actually play the game. You don't have to be "good" at it, but you need to have been between the white lines.
Other than that, if this is about appreciation for the game, hell ... most people go to a ballgame for the nachos and can't even tell you who's playing. Some of us know way too much about the game and lose sight of the joy it ought to produce. I think my avatar and team logo speaks to that perspective.