From: jclark@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (J. Michael Clark)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Get a life baseball fans... Try ping-pong!
Date: 9 Jan 93 06:23:21 GMT
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept,. Athens

In article <9301082157.AA27017@pserv.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM> khanh@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Khanh Nguyen) writes:
>
>
    [Stupid stuff deleted]

>Oh, and God forbid they should have to run across the field and damn near
>have a heartattack.  Please!
     Yeah, those ping-pong players run alot farther than baseball players


>And what do these slobs get paid?  $50,000,000 per second!  For what?
>
      No, I did some calculating:
       Minimum- $109,000/year = $672.84/game = $224.28/hr (3 hr. avg)
                     = $3.74/min = $0.06/sec

       Bonds/Fielder- 7,000,000/year = 43,209.88/game = 14,403.29/hr
                     = 240.05/min = $4.00/sec

        OK so it is a lot and that is one of the problems in baseball
           but tell me how much "professional" ping-pong players make..

>Have you seen a modern table tennis tourney lately?  Real action!  Mano a
>mano battle for supremacy on the board.  Each one grabbing his paddle
>instead of his crotch.
>
      Oh, yeah.. There's more action there than baseball....
 
     Baseball-Home Run, Sucicide Squeeze, Hit and Run, Stolen Base
           Close play at the plate, Diving Catch, Sliding in with a 
           cloud of dust, Bunting for a base hit, 4-6-3 Double play,
           Gunning down the runner at 2nd, Score tied, bottom of the
           ninth, bases loaded, pitcher looks in, has the sign, 
           here's the pitch..............
 
     Ping-pong- Ball goes left, ball goes right, ball goes left, ball
            goes right........

>Pardon my saying so, but the only thing lamer than baseball is what you
>call "football."
>
>No flames necessary-- although I'm not sure you knobheads could scrape up
 ^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^
       Wanna bet!!! I hardly ever flame but this needs one WITHOUT A DOUBT

>enough intelligence between you to come up with a good one.  Anyway, I'm
>sure you're all REALLY offended.  Offended-- that's a big person word for
                                                       ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^
                              Well, who helped you learn the big person word

>when you don't like something that someone said.  
>
>So, don't bother.
     Too late.....
>
>Khanh

Additional note- 
       Baseball is part of our American culture the names are everywhere
Aaron, Ruth, DiMaggio, Cobb, Mantle, Gerhig, Mays, Robinson, Williams,
Musial, Yastrzemski, Banks, Rose, Musial, Clemente, Ryan, Sever, Carlton
Young..... Need I go on? Now for all the noteable ping-pong players
in American culture ..... Well there's  aah   ummmm well, I'll have to get 
back to you on that one.....
 
Finally,(as if there is still any doubt in your mind) I'd like to leave
you with the text to a document that you all know (or maybe not if you're
a ping-pong nut)
 
THE GAME FOR ALL AMERICA (A Definition of Baseball)
by Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a president tossing out the first ball of the season
and a pudgy school boy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.
A tall thin old man waving a score card from the corner of his dugout
That's Baseball.
As so is a big fat guy with a bulbous nose running home one of his 
   714 home runs.
There's a man in Mobile who remembers that Honus Wagner hit a triple
   in PIttsburgh 46 years ago, that's baseball.
And so is a scout reporting that a 16 year old pitcher in Cheyenne
   is a coming Walter Johnson.
Baseball is a spirited game of man against man, reflex against reflex
   a game of inches.
Every skill is measured, every heroic, every failing, seen and cheered, 
   or booed and then becomes a statistic.
In baseball democracy shines its clearest, the only race that matters is
   the race to the bag.
The creed is a rule book and color mearly something to distinguish one
   team's uniform from another.
Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his
   throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream.
It's a veteran too. A tired, old man of 35 hoping those aching muscles can
   pull him through another swealtering August and September.
Nicknames are baseball. Names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and 
   Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.
Baseball is the clear cool eyes of Rogers Hornsby, the flashing spikes
   of a Ty Cobb and an overaged pixie named Rabbit Moranville.
Baseball, just a game, as simple as a ball and bat and yet as complex
   as the American spirit it symbolizes.
It's a sport, a business, sometimes almost even religion.
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brillient World Series catch 
   and then dashing off to play stickball in the streets with his teenage pals.
That's Baseball.
And so is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gerhig saying, "I consider myself
   the luckiest man on the face of this earth."
Baseball is cigar smoke, hot roasted peanuts, ladies day, "Down in front!"
   "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," the seventh inning stretch, and the
   "Star Spangled Banner"
Baseball is a man named Campanella telling the nation's business leaders,
   "You have to be a man to be a big leaguer, but you have to have a lot 
   of little boy in you too."
This is a game for America, this baseball, a game for boys and for men!


To that I can only say Amen! Let's see Mr. Nguyen come up with a definition
of ping-pong that can match that......
 
I guess I have had my say... this is my first real flame I though I'd make
it a doozie.
 
Signed,
J. Michael Clark
Ohio University