Open Thread

By more4less on June 11, 2010 2:50 PM

NYC is basketball town. we just missing a star. I love basketball. best team sport is football

M4L, I was a total Knicks freak in the Pat Riley era. Then I got so sick of them losing. Also I hated Isiah Thomas after that era. I love basketball too. (You are a real sports fan M4L!!!!)

Donatella I loved that post.

American football is a war game. It is a game of strategy and force, enclosed and highly defined in time and space. Baseball is a poetic game, infinite space, and time isn’t defined. It is lyrical and dreamy, mixed with a different kind of athleticism. Basketball is a dance of stategy. American football doesn’t appeal to me. I love baseball and basketball. And soccer, I dig the pure athleticism. But out of everything, baseball is best.

“I enjoy baseball although I don’t watch it on TV and only occasionally go to games”

So more, like, in theory? At least soccer ends 1-0 after a guaranteed 100 minutes or so instead of after 3 hours plus.

I can only watch baseball anymore during the playoffs, and only after the third hour, when it’s in the bottom of the 6th or something.

I have never gotten excited about American football but understand why it appeals to the American mindset. It’s a game about power. That doesn’t make it a lesser sport even though there are lots of people who will go off the deep end about how awful American football is.

I enjoy baseball although I don’t watch it on TV and only occasionally go to games. Coney Island Cyclones are my favorite New York team (actually not my favorite team – more that their stadium is my favorite place to watch baseball).