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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s like watching paint dry. [/quote]

That would be baseball…[/quote]

Soccer is baseball except with more cry babies.[/quote]

Huh? Struggling to find similarities apart from the fact they both use balls (one hard, dense and small and hit with bats while the other that is much larger and filled with air is kicked about the field. Soccer is done in a short time while Many people have to leave baseball games before the conclusion of all the innings.

As a parent I was so glad our son played soccer and not baseball because the latter goes on forever … the cry babies at elite levels of soccer play are trying to score penalty points. It is often very amusing when they are playing hard and fine after acting like they were permanently maimed a few minutes before.  That said, soccer has very high injury rates among youth while
Baseball much less so.

Baseball is a very American game while soccer is much more universal.

They are both great sports but hardly the same. [/quote]

The similarity is that they are boring to a lot of people. Many of us don't find the flopping amusing. It's pathetic.

Also, kids' baseball is often timed, so I don't think your kid's sports career would have been too onerous even if he had played baseball. Games for 10 year olds don't last 9 innings/3 hours. [/quote]

Friends who kids played baseball routinely complained about the games going forever.

Many many people disagree with you that soccer is boring. And thank goodness women’s soccer teams are growing in popularity as well. [/quote]

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