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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

— Earl Wilson

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Baseball is a team game.

— Eddie Murray

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

— Juliana Hatfield

Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

— Chad Harbach

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

— Jacob deGrom

That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.

— Johnny Bench

Baseball is a game of inches.

— Branch Rickey

The typical baseball play is a pitcher throwing a ball and the batter not swinging at it, while the other players watch. Even a home run, the sport's defining big blast, is only metaphorically exciting; a fly ball that leaves the yard changes the score but may offer no more compelling view than an outfielder staring up.

— Richard Corliss

✗Opposing Perspectives

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You 'take in' a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

— Charles Krauthammer

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic.

— Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a movable conversation across nine innings. It is eye contact with the person seated next to you in a park where the pitcher is separated from the batter by 60 feet, six inches or in a family room where a 60-inch TV screen hangs on the wall.

— Mike Barnicle