Comments on: …And Then There Was One

By: metsfan345

metsfan345 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:16:02 +0000

lots of good stats and numbers kevin, very nice

By: kevin

kevin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:41:42 +0000

Riccio, I think you misunderstood what she wrote. A 162 game season compared to a 16 game season with seven days of rest in between each game is a still a good comparison.

Last year over one billion dollars in salary was paid to baseball players on the DL, compared to a quarter of that in football.

The physical grind of a one hour game where depending if you’re on offense or defense you spend approximately 30 minutes on the field (actually less if you consider special teams) or 8 hours in a total season does not compare to the rigors of a 162 game season.

Football is a sprint, baseball is a marathon.

Beltran didn’t lose the cartilidge in his knees because he was walking in the park. 20% of starting pitchers don’t end up with surgery on their arms because they threw 20 passes in a game. It’s because they violently contort their bodies and arms to throw a baseball at high velocities in the most unnatural way and they do so 100 times per game. The average starting piycher throws the ball 3,500 times a season not counting warmups, spring training, etc. The average quarterback throws the ball 300-350 times in a season. Quick, name the last quarterback who needed Tommy John surgery?

By: Ed Leyro

Ed Leyro — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:56:08 +0000

I don’t think Kelly ever said baseball was as hard on the body as football. She just said that a lot of people don’t realize how hard it was on the body. She’s right about that. I can’t imagine working seven days a week from February to October with only a day off here are there. If my boss ever asked me to work every day, then occasionally throw myself all over the ground and subject myself to projectiles being thrown at me day in and day out, I’d ask to be released from my duties.

By: Riccio

Riccio — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:36:59 +0000

Im not trying to be mean here but if you think baseball is nearly as physical as football or as hard on the body I dont know what to tell you. They say the average NFL player loses 10 years off his life from playing. And these guys are gettin paid millions to risk injury and then go back out there. They know the risk before they step foot on the field, it’s part of the game….but I LOL at the notion that baseball is as physical as football.

By: Kelly Horn

Kelly Horn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:29:24 +0000

Can you imagine going to work knowing you could get physically hurt, and then being out of work until you recover, only to go out and do it again?

I think thats the most underrated part of baesball. My boss (who is a huge football fan) heard me listening to the Mets game one day at work. He said, “I never really got into baseball, its just boring and not as physical as football.” Well I already think hes an idiot, but that just proved it moreso.

I’m not going to say football or baseball is better or even compare them because I love them both, but I have to say that a lot of people don’t realize how hard the game can be on the body.

We Mets fans certainly are learning that the hard way this season.

Get well soon Beltran, Delgado, Reyes, Maine, Perez, Pagan, Putz, Wagner, Martinez… We miss you all!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:52:03 +0000

No Beltran, no Delgado, no Reyes means no runs which means no matter how good the pitching is, this team is not going to win many games. Plus, they have very little to offer any other teams for a trade. It is a bad situation in Flushing right now.