If you don’t care whether or not you win the game, why should I?
May 1st, 2008 | by Scott Jennings |This is why women’s sports are completely unwatchable.
A home run happens when you hit the ball into fair territory and round the bases before you’re tagged out. If you hit the ball out of the park, you get to round the bases at your leisure. It’s softball, there’s no clock, we’re not in any hurry.
So if you injure your knee while backtracking after missing first base, you have precisely two options.
1. Give up at first base, get credit for a single, get pulled for a pinch runner, and cost your team a run.
2. Limp, hobble, crawl, hop on one fucking leg around those bases, because WE PLAY. TO WIN. THE GAME.
There is no option 3. There is no “gosh, you hit the ball but you didn’t round the bases, but you wanted to round the bases, so we’ll give the game to you, friend.” That would be dumb. That would sort of ruin the part of the competition where the competitors compete to win the competition.
The reason you’ve never seen anything like this before is because it’s incredibly stupid. If I were rooting for the team that gave the game away, I’d have stood up and walked out. Just awful.
This is why our kids aren’t learning in school.
One Response to “If you don’t care whether or not you win the game, why should I?”
By Jason Curtis on May 19, 2008 | Reply
I think the larger issue is the lack of composure that caused the knee injury in the first place.