Why does weather kill baseball but not football?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Is there something I'm not getting (which would be normal )? I have always wondered why football can be played in even the most unbelievable weather conditions, but baseball gets put on hold when it just rains. What makes baseball so much more dependent on the weather than football?

Or, as George Carlin puts it:

Football is played in any kind of weather. Rain, snow, sleet, hail, can't see the game, don't know if there IS a game going on...mud on the field, can't read the uniforms, can't read the yard markers. the struggle will continue.

In baseball, if it rains...we don't go out to play!

 

[scotpens]

A number of answers can be found on this page.

Besides the practical differences between the two sports, a lot of it is just tradition. Baseball, after all, is a summer game. Football is played in the winter, when you expect crappy weather.

 

[gblews]

Is there something I'm not getting (which would be normal )? I have always wondered why football can be played in even the most unbelievable weather conditions, but baseball gets put on hold when it just rains. What makes baseball so much more dependent on the weather than football?

Because baseball is basically a pussy sport.

 

[scotpens]

Is there something I'm not getting (which would be normal )? I have always wondered why football can be played in even the most unbelievable weather conditions, but baseball gets put on hold when it just rains. What makes baseball so much more dependent on the weather than football?

Because baseball is basically a pussy sport.

You wouldn't say that to Ty Cobb. Especially if he had a bat in his hand.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Because baseball is basically a pussy sport.

You wouldn't say that to Ty Cobb.

Or Carlos Zambrano.

 

[gblews]

Because baseball is basically a pussy sport.

You wouldn't say that to Ty Cobb.

Especially if he had a bat in his hand.

Just because Satan happened to play baseball, does not mean it was not a pussy sport.

Cobb's outbursts didn't stop just because he no longer played baseball. He continued to argue with waitresses, cashiers, customs officials, policemen and old friends. When he drank, his behavior was even worse. Only four people from baseball attended his funeral.

Good lord.

 

[Roger Wilco]

That sounds more like a prick than a tough guy anyway.

 

[Sheep]

Football doesn't feature a hard projectile being thrown at you at 80+ mph.

 

[gblews]

Football doesn't feature a hard projectile being thrown at you at 80+ mph.

Yeah, but you pretty much know exactly when the ball is coming and from where it's coming. And the object when the ball is thrown is almost never to hit the batter.

In football, you have 300+ lbs. people, bent on your destruction coming at you from any and all angles on every play. One is a scary sport, the other is just a sport. George Carlin knew what he was talking about.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Baseball is a more precise game. Things involving the pitcher can just get messed up in bad weather. Likewise, fielding and running are more difficult. With football, it's easier to overcome the weather. Passes are a bit more difficult, sure, but they're still doable. In addition, you can always just hand the ball off and have the guy run. There are still options to allow for a well-played game.

 

[Jack Bauer]

That sounds more like a prick than a tough guy anyway.

Unfortunately a lot of people confuse being a prick with being tough. Cobb may have thought he was tough but he was just an asshole.

 

[SmoothieX]

My thought is that it has to do with the tradition of how the rules of the games were set up.

It's weird though, when it's kinda rainy, it's dreary to watch a baseball game. Players slip all over the outfield, a slippery ball makes for horrible throws, etc.

Yet with football, the messier the better. Give me mud, snow, 30 mph winds, and big chunks of grass coming up in player's helmets.

I've been to baseball games where it's rainy and it's no fun. You just want to sneak back into the concourse and wait until it stops. But I've been to 3 snow bowls at Patriots games and loved every second of being out there.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It's weird though, when it's kinda rainy, it's dreary to watch a baseball game. Players slip all over the outfield, a slippery ball makes for horrible throws, etc.

Sometimes it's funny though. The other night it was raining at Yankee Stadium and they came back from a 57-minute rain delay against the Mariners. So we see Ichiro trying to go for a ball that's rolling - rather leisurely, not fast at all - into right field, and all of a sudden the ball stops and FOOSH! there's a huge plume of water that it has just hit.

 

[RoJoHen]

Baseball involves a lot of standing/sitting around doing nothing. Winter would almost certainly make that unbearable. I don't even want to imagine what it would be like to play Right Field in the middle of December.

 

[Canadave]

^ Not like baseball has never been played in cold, windy stadiums before.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmF8GGAovj8[/yt]

 

[Maestro]

"I don't like any sport where the defense can't score." -- Elliot, Leverage

 

[Avon]

its because americans don't do sport proper. They should be playing Scandinavian Ice Cricket

 

[Garak]

Baseball players are pussies, football players are not.

/end thread

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Baseball players are pussies, football players are not.

I dare you to say that to Randy Johnson. To his FACE.

 

[Garak]

Baseball players are pussies, football players are not.

I dare you to say that to Randy Johnson. To his FACE.

Sure why not, what is he like 50 now?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but baseball players really are viewed as total pussies. Talk to any hockey player - they're just overpaid, steroid loving punchlines to them.