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How To Watch Baseball Without Being Bored

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Welcome to Opening Day. Baseball is America’s pastime, and the game is filled with more than a century’s worth of history and tradition. It’s a game that both men and women enjoy playing and attending while indulging in some peanuts and Cracker Jacks. To really get into baseball, however, you’re going to have to learn some of the sport’s nuances and spend a bit more time incorporating it into your daily life.

If you haven’t paid it much attention before, here are some tips on how to get into baseball:

Watch baseball with someone who knows the game

Soccer is fairly simple to comprehend; take the ball and try to get it into the opponent’s net. Baseball, on the other hand, is much more intricate.

There are balls and strikes, nine innings, four bases, and a complex scoring system.

Since you don’t want to read The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Baseball, the easiest way to learn about baseball is to watch a game with someone who is familiar with the sport.

You can go to a game with your buddy and take in the atmosphere or you can just watch it at home on television; either way, your companion can walk you through the fundamentals and reply to all of your basic questions. Having such a resource at your disposal will make the learning curve more reasonable and that will make it that much easier to get into baseball.

Learn some baseball lingo

When you first get into baseball and watch actual games with commentators, you might feel like Paris Hilton trying to understand The Wire. This is because the vernacular of baseball is hard to pick up, at first.

Little by little, however, the more you get acclimated to the sport, the more you will understand the terminology. The simple terms like batter, pitcher and dugout will come quickly, but it will take some time and understanding to fully familiarize yourself with the language.

As you get into baseball, watching with a friend will help speed up the process of understanding that the "long ball" is a home run and that a "staff ace" is the team’s best starting pitcher.

If you don’t have a buddy to help you out, a simple online search of "baseball jargon" will churn out dozens of online glossaries, which are handy to keep around.

If you want to get into baseball, you might find that it’s more fun than work…

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