Baseball has advantages over football. Baseball is probably a better game.
I’ll say it again: Baseball has advantages over football.
Baseball players are average-size people like you and me, although there always are exceptions. I am not aware of one position in baseball where a player must weigh 300 pounds. I am not aware of one position in baseball where a player is considered “undersized” if he weighs 260.
Football encourages — needs — men to be giants, to be oversized, oh, let’s face it, to be abnormal. Coco Crisp is a normal-looking adult. Away from the ballpark you would have no idea what he does for a living. You think PEDs are rampant in baseball? I’ve often wondered how so many NFL players grow so large. They look like hormone-fed cattle. Don’t you suspect PEDs are part of the deal in the NFL, at least for certain positions?…show more content… I take that back. It has become more specialized, but it is nothing like football where everyone is a specialist. A guy plays offense or defense, not both. A guy plays on first down but not third down. In baseball, sure, there are closers and set-up men and they are specialists. But the ethic of baseball — there is an ethic — is you have to play the field to earn the right to hit.
Right now, you’re thinking designated hitter and that explodes my argument. Only in the American League, which uses that abomination of a semi-position. The DH always has been a phony deal and it violates the baseball ethic because the DH does not earn the right to bat. He sits in the clubhouse pedaling a stationary
