Pastime is defined as, “An activity that occupies one’s spare time pleasantly.” I think pleasantly is a nice word. Pleasant is what a grandma is. Pleasant is when you take a nap on a Sunday afternoon.
I think drinking a cold beer with friends is a nice pastime, it occupies free time, and it can be quite pleasant, especially if you’re not routing for the Bills or Clippers.
So it begs the question, what makes baseball a pastime, more importantly, America’s pastime?
Baseball can be considered is an activity, sometimes the players run, not too much to break a sweat. They definitely spit and scratch themselves, that’s a decent activity. Baseball is only done in your spare time, not even real players would play baseball if it wasn’t during their spare time. Watching baseball can be pleasant, especially on a nice evening with a beer. I don’t think the players think its to pleasant, especially with drunk fans yelling at you, critiquing your play, telling you your lazy, telling you that you should have a * next to your name.
With what I can think of baseball, it’s a nice pastime, but what I can’t connect is the “America’s” part. I think calling something “America’s” means that it’s the best, the greatest, the toughest, have the most heart, and provide some action. Baseball really isn’t any of that. Baseball is simple, fairly easy to play, and contains about 5% heart and 5% action.
That brings me to my next question, if baseball is easy, played by highly paid “designer” athletes, why the $#%@!!!! did my fantasy team go 1 for 38 tonight? I mean, that’s more than a perfect game for the other team. That is an infinitesimal .026 batting average. That’s so small, I think a sperm is larger. I have two #$%&@ complete games against me. I’m losing 16 to 1, to a guy that’s batting .143!!!!!
Why oh why do normal sports fans like myself put up with fantasy baseball? There isn’t anything you can really do in fantasy baseball to change the outcome. Anything can happen, the odds prove it, there is no strategy, no thought, and absolutely no reason to give yourself a heart attack over. Baseball is alright, but fantasy baseball sucks.
When asked, “joining our league?” I thought, “I waste too much time watching my scores, and I don’t even win.” But my friend said, “we’ve got to beat my brother“, so that sealed the deal, I was in! So now I think, this is just like the time I retired from bowling, because it’s a dumb game and definitely not a sport. So I’ve had all I can take, I’m retiring!!!! I sticking to just the gridiron, America’s true pastime, where the bad asses kick a little ass, and it happens to go well with beer.