Ivan13
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Being a catcher is more difficult than any single position in soccer, and this is coming from someone who vastly prefers soccer to baseball.
Ever played FB?
Being a catcher is more difficult than any single position in soccer, and this is coming from someone who vastly prefers soccer to baseball.
Ever played FB?
True, can't get americans to hop on a bandwagon without winning something first, and the US will never win anything that matters in Football.
Fair enough, I think we can all agree that baseball is a difficult leisure-activity, certainly trickier than lawn darts or beer-pong.
If I were ever to play at a high level (in relative Canadian terms, so like playing university etc) I would've played full back. Luckily, I have never played on a high level team and I thus contentedly play as a kick and run striker. Having played plenty of left-back, I can safely say that it is the most exhausting and difficult position I have played in any sport. I've never played baseball, so I cannot comment on catcher, but the physical exhaustion of playing FB is crazy, especially if you wanna contribute offensively.
I played DM as a kid before I shifted to handball fulltime, but I had to fill in for a game at FB. It was horrible, but still not as bad as playing a complete game of handball.
I always found playing midfield far more tiring than FB, but that's because in Canada if you try any overlap play you get flogged in public.
I always found playing midfield far more tiring than FB, but that's because in Canada if you try any overlap play you get flogged in public.
Being a catcher is more difficult than any single position in soccer, and this is coming from someone who vastly prefers soccer to baseball.
Is that really any different than soccer?
Everyone goes for a nice leisure jog, sometimes you score, sometimes you don't, either way the fans punch each other in the streets.
True sprinting for 7 miles each match is a very leisurely jog...one that would cause half of the MLB to have a heart attack.
So is being a pitcher, or a shortstop, and likely a centrefielder as well.
Have you ever even watched baseball?
Hilarious.
...because you've tried?
I mean, even a 50 year old can jog 7 miles in 90 minutes.
Right, and baseball is just standing around for 4 hours doing nothing and full of nonathletic, overweight bums.
But yeah I like them both as well just playing devil's advocate in that sense. They're both athletically and mentally taxing in different ways.
I've never really understood why people try to put down other sports just because they enjoy a different one. Like is it hard to just enjoy soccer without putting down some kind of oversimplified, ignorant blanket statement over a different sport?
Man, soccer is so boring...90+ minutes of guys jogging back and forth on a field only for the score to be 0 - 0, on a giant net no less!
DM is taxing, especially if you like to be involved in the build up, but again nothing I played is close to handball, where you get beaten up, have to sprint every half a minute and work like crazy when playing D, especially if you play as the middle guy in 5-1 or 3-2-1 D like I used to.
I think ultimately this just comes down to what you mention above. Typically you're gonna like what you grew up with, particularly if you played it. You're going to understand it better, you're gonna relate to it, and you're gonna have a greater appreciation for what you're watching because of that.
GK in football (soccer) is *BY FAR* the most difficult position to play in any sport.
I am speaking from 25+ years of experience
Catcher is definitely more difficult. Catcher's are involved every pitch, and there is much more physical/mental stress on the body/mind.
Doesn't the EPL get better ratings than the NHL in america?
Catchers do have to call a solid game, know the pitcher and his tendencies, etc, but as a keeper, I have to cover an 8' x 24' net, while barking out instructions to my back four, and not only that, rely on them to clear their lines, because often times, even if i make a save, i am often out os position to do anything on the rebound if there is one.