Baseball - Is this just a Fancy Dress Party ?

Question

I am a Brit. ( So - I apologise)
I need to ask you Americans (or Brits) :-

1. Why do you wear fancy dress gear ? Why do you wear the fancy pants. ( Are you all woofters or cherry boys or something else ?)
2. OK - accepted that you do, how come you don the fancy tight pants ?
3. Why does the pitcher (if he is right handed), put his opposite leg up like a ballet dancer ? Is this some kind of sexual inuendo ?
4. How come the umpires or maybe you call them referees, have to wear 'concentration' type outfits.
5. Why is most of the game spent not actually playing the game ?
6. Why do they spit as far as they can all over the baseball ground as if to score a home run ?
6. Why oh why, all the ******* stats ?

One or two of the answers to date are from 'retards' but most Americans have taken it with good humour.

YES
Little girls play rounders !
These grown men play with all there fancy dress.
They must feel like they are woofters !!!!!

Answer 1

As an American I must retaliate. Lumping your comments together, I must ask, have you ever been to a cricket match. If so what is wicket and why is it sticky? Why do your football (soccer in US) players play with out helmets. Don't they have anything to protect. Our football players wear helmets, sometimes they remove them to fight. Oops, that makes us look foolish, I didn't intend that.

Love your sense of humor, don't ever let anyone take it from you.

In reference to #5, you should watch, perhaps endure is a better word, an American football game. Four 15 minute quarters that take 3 hours to accomplish. Ain't sports fun???

Answer 2

1.)Fancy dress gear? Ooh......u mean for cricket? Yeah, I know. Baseball gear is in no way fancy, mate.
2.)Baseball pants used to be very baggy but then the they started to wear them tight. The current baseball pants aren't that tight. I imagine it'd be harder to run around with baggy pants that reach to the ankles, don't u think?
3.)Sexual innuendo? What the f*u*c*k* is wrong with u? It's just to help them throw the ball better, u pervert.
4.)Umpires get hit by pitch sometimes so they need protection, u know.
5.)Spending a lot of time not actually playing the game ? Are u sure u've actually watched the game or are u just talkin' like u've actually watched it?
6.) They spit 'cause they're eating sunflower seeds and I don't think anybody wants to eat the shells of those seeds. I'm sure u don't. I don't think it has anything to do with scoring home runs, either.
7.) Why oh why not? Don't soccer players show their bloody stats, too?

Answer 3

I am Indian now living in America and underwent the burden of growing around people who lost their minds on the most harmful game known to man kind - cricket, thanks to our colonial masters the Brits.

Most people outside the commonwealth nations don't even know that the "pure" form of the sport is 5 days. I sometimes think, it could have been a deliberate ploy of the imperial powers so that the people become lazy and unproductive. Otherwise why wasn't rugby introduced to the extent of cricket?. Now that's a game that I want Indian to play to be tough and physical. My Inidan friends shy away from any sport that has anything even remotely close to physical contact.

No to mention the hours spent on watching and playing the game, imagine the resources needed for the game. The ground is bigger than most sports, the pitch required a lot of preparation, and with all the gear for the batsman looks like an astronaut. With a country with astronomical population density, how can we afford all this? I've made up my mind to return and popularize, UFC style fighting or something that requires less space and equipment.

Answer 4

1. Are you referring to the uniform? All sports team wear some sort of uniform. BB pants have changed over the years but by no stretch of the imagination are they "fancy".
2. BB pants used to be tighter then they are now and some of the players still like to wear them. Personally I like the tighter ones but I'm female so I may be a bit biased. LOL
3.The pitcher lifts his leg in order to get momentum to throw the ball. He's able to throw it harder/faster then if he just stood there and threw it.
4. Umpires wear dark blue uniforms. I don't know what you mean by concentration type outfits.
5. Unfortunately the camera angles they show the game with are not very interesting to the average viewer. They mostly show just the pitcher and the batter when 3/4 of the game is going on behind the pitcher, along the base paths. Years ago someone in their infinite wisdom thought the viewers only wanted to see a close-up of the pitcher or the batter and they've stuck with that ever since. If they showed the game from behind the catcher you would see a lot of things happeneing in the field that you can't see now.
6. Baseball players are spitters, so are hockey players. Why? Who knows? Because they can I guess.
7. I don't know why they keep so many stats but they do. You can ignore 80% of them and just concentrate on the important ones.
Players=BA (batting average) OBP (on base percentage) SLP (slugging percentage)
Pitchers= ERA (earned run average) WHIP (wins, hits, innings pitched) W (wins) SO (strikeouts)

I know it seems like the slowest game in the world but once you get to know the game and understand what's going on it makes it much more interesting.
Hope this helps.

BTW I'm Canadian & I do love this "American" game.
JAYS RULE!!

Answer 5

Dude, you like soccer, oops pardon me, futball, and you are going to try to rip baseball? Soccer is the most boring tiresome spectator sport ever, I wouldn't piss in the world cup.

Baseball is an evolved American version of cricket.

A few years back the one of best cricket players in all of England and Sammy Sosa had some fun. Sammy tried cricket, and this other chap tried to hit a major league fastball. The cricket player failed miserably, Sammy was invited to play in a real cricket match, however he turned it down.

Looks like a "Fancylad" won that one.

Answer 6

If she would not want to be a cheerleader, why do no longer you be ambitious and gown as a cheerleader your self? Your female pal ought to gown as an American soccer participant with all of the padding, and she or he would be in a position that can assist you such as your outfit and do your make up!

Answer 7

Yes it really is just like rounders that little girls play, but then so is cricket!
Although I think the American men in tights look very sweet!!
OH! I just cant bear to think about it any more!!!!!!!
Hope this helps foster good relations??

Answer 8

I just think it's hilarious that a Brit would try questioning the masculinity of American athletes. It's that whole pot-kettle thing, in my opinion.

When I think of foppish, feminine dandies, I think of Brits well before Americans.

Answer 9

Whay do some Brits act like fancy pants???

Answer 10

you fascination with "fancy" is a little scary.... aren't soccer shorts real short with a cut on the side???? now that is fruity.....