Why does rain stop a baseball game but football players will play through a blizzard?

Question

In short, why are baseball players so delicate?

Answer 1

Professional baseball teams play 162 games per year while professional football teams only play 16 regular season games.

Baseball games are easy to reschedule. Some teams play each other as many as 16 times per year, so a missed game can be played as part of a double header.

In football. you play teams in your own division twice and play all other teams on your schedule only once. There simply is no realistic way to reschedule the games because of bad weather.

Do you remember when those really disastrous files struck California a few years ago? Rather than delay the Chargers football game, the moved it to Arizona. Scheduling differences are the main reason for the difference.

Answer 2

Ever tried to hit a 95 mile per hour fastball? How bout fielding a hot line drive down the third base line or a deep drive up against the center field wall?

To an average Joe baseball fan, these things might appear to be simple, especially on television. In the best conditions, these plays are actually very physically and mentally demanding.

Surely you've noted that any true professional in any field, has the ability to make whatever they do appear to be easy. For Major League Baseball players who have been hitting, catching and throwing a baseball since as long as they can remember, it's no different.

The most important reason why Major League Umpires collectively decide to postpone a Major League game because of inclimate weather (such as rain) is for the protection and safety of the players. To eliminate the chance of personal injury. This rule was created in the best interest of the sport, athlete and fan.

"Delicate" you ask? In this case, the delicacy occurs during the act of writing those guaranteed humongous checks to the players who ultimately bring the fans through the turnstiles and tune into the games through various mediums.

George Carlin's words below might hint to you why comparing baseball to football is probably pointless.

"In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line."

"In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe!"

Answer 3

Judging from the (both male and female) football fans I've known, I'd venture a guess that it has a lot to do with the macho image football encourages. Let's face it - it's more like a field of gladiators than it is the laid-back, genteel sport of baseball. I mean, men really get HURT playing that game, and its purpose seems to be making it to the goal in spite of the fact that you're likely to be mangled for your efforts by a line of men built like refrigerators. How can that sort of mentality possibly allow something like RAIN to stop their forward progress? Baseball players, on the other hand, have played the game in a more gentlemanly (well, for the most part) fashion. The most primitive thing a baseball player does on the field, it seems, is grab their crotch, spit, and kick dirt on each other's shoes.

Answer 4

Because the baseball game can change to another time but football only have 1 or 2 weeks todo it .

Answer 5

The answer is rather simple: the ball is made of leather, leather gets wet, wetness makes it soggy, soggy ball is not in an optimal condition for either hitting or pitching (does not travel well when hit and the pitcher has a great advantage in controling different types of pitches that can be thrown). Plus the players do not wear cleats on their shows because of the danger of players being "spiked" in the face or body when a player slides in his approach to the base under wet field conditions.

Answer 6

Because the ball is considerably smaller. It has nothing to do with frailty rather than being pragmatic, it becomes pretty dull when nobody is batting anything, and the ball is constantly moving unlike football where usually there's a big mass of a person either behind it or gunning for it... it is easier to see one of those in the rain I think.

Answer 7

baseball aka softball players are not delicate...
u cant throw or pitch the ball in the rain
it just doesnt work and then you get a whole lotta walks and the game is not fun.

Answer 8

Because people watching football (in a lot of arenas) are set to handle the weather, and people watching baseball are not.

Answer 9

rescheduling football games is more difficult then rescheduling a baseball game because in baseball you can have double headers. also in baseball if the soil and grass gets wet the ball can take a different jump then it would regularly do.

Answer 10

Because baseball players are afraid of getting a yeast infection from their vaginas getting to wet.