Originally Posted by
Nano Reefer
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globally cricket is the most popular sport, followed by soccer. so dont talk about acceptance. smart enough for baseball? back in high school all the kids on the team were pot-heads. lacrosse is constant running, you have to master the use of a man-made object, you hit like in football, throw like in baseball, and hit people as hard as you want with a metal pole. thats not second rate. maybe its where you live. here on the east coast its very intense.
lol you've never seen texas football have you. Nor have you hit a baseball going much faster than 90 mph.
I'm not knocking your sport, and played it in a "club sense" at college, it was alot of fun. Not the Duke lacrosse team. However i did get to knock the crap out of people.
On a school level, I don't see 20,000 seat lacrosse stadiums, I do however see 20,000 seat highschool football stadiums that sell out. That they play lacrosse in too. (hence second tier sport) No kid in his right mind is going to choose making the lacrosse team over making the football team (in texas). Maybe in some yuppy school up north...
On an anthropological level. It is experiencing the same type of growth that soccer did. Picked up by the same type of people as a whole. However it was always popular with the latin american community, and I would dare say not growing in that demographic because it can't get any bigger. And in the usa, lacrosse and soccer were picked up by Uppermiddle class, white, expanding from the northeast and west coast, (where being like europe is more trendy) and if you notice most teams play a more european style of soccer vs the latin american style. And lacrosse is the same way, it is picked up because the american indian is as popular as the european in the leftward leaning politically correct northeast culture. The thing is about this demographic is that they are capricious so soon their interests will be peeked by some other sport on ESPN Ocho and their next issue of OSQ (Obscure Sports Quarterly).
However simply put there isn't a sport in the usa (I've never watched a 5 day cricket match) that come close to the strategy and unique lore of baseball. Baseball is full of minor unnoticeable nuances that effect the play of the game that go unnoticed. From positioning of a player to a quarter of an inch being the difference between a popup and homerun. From the choice of a pitch or bunting there are a million different factors that are pieced together create a unique game. Not well choreographed pass paterns, or a well timed pick and roll. Each move is set up carefully.
However this can be easily seen, there are no minor league for football. You can teach all a player needs to know in college. However you can play baseball through college and still not have the skillbase to be able to play in the MLB, they have to teach you more in the minors.
That was possibly the stupidest thing I've heard all day.
