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Since the MLB lockout ended the other day, I have begun to look forward to seeing the Nats take the field in just under a month. I'm not a huge baseball fan, not nearly as much as my father who was a teenager in New York City in the 1950's. But I still love the history, its facination and almost obsession with numbers, and how on any night you can see something that has never happened before.
A few years back, my father-in-law was visiting from the UK (where my wife is from) and I happened to be watching a Nationals game on TV. I remember him asking me why the pitcher and catcher were just throwing the ball to each other and the batter was just standing there! Needless to say, that was the last time he ever attempted to watch a baseball game!
In fact, Baseball is different from any other sport, very different. For instance, in most sports you score points or goals; in baseball you score runs. In most sports the ball, or object, is put in play by the offensive team; in baseball the defensive team puts the ball in play, and only the defense is allowed to touch the ball. In fact, in baseball if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he's out; sometimes unintentionally, he's out.
In most sports the team is run by a coach; in baseball the team is run by a manager. And only in baseball does the manager or coach wear the same clothing the players do. Would you really want to see Andy Reid in his Kansas City Chiefs uniform?
I think you know where this is going...what do you say we do a little comparison between baseball and football and you fill in the blanks?
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game.
Football is a twentieth-century _________ ___________.
Baseball is played on a diamond, in a park.The baseball park!
Football is played on a _______, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium.
Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life.
Football begins in the fall, when everything's _____.
In football you wear a helmet.
In baseball you wear a ____.
Football is concerned with downs - what down is it?
Baseball is concerned with ___ - who's ___?
In football you receive a penalty.
In baseball you make an ____.
In football the specialist comes in to kick.
In baseball the specialist comes in to _______ ________.
Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness.
Baseball has the _______.
Football is played in any kind of weather: rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog...
In baseball, if it rains, we don't go out to play.
Baseball has the seventh inning stretch.
Football has the ___ ______ ________.
Baseball has no time limit: we don't know when it's gonna end - might have extra innings.
Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death.
In baseball, during the game, in the stands, there's kind of a picnic feeling; emotions may run high or low, but there's not too much unpleasantness.
In football, during the game in the stands, you can be sure that at least twenty-seven times you're capable of taking the life of a fellow human being.
And finally, the objectives of the two games are completely different:
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 __ ____! And to __ ____! - I hope I'll be _____ __ ______!
To get the final coordinates, take the first letter of each answer (there will be 21 of them), in order, and plug them into certitude.
Have fun, be safe, and Go Nats!
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