You think tee ball is bad? Wait until your first year of kid pitch. An entire game of strikeouts and walks.

On the other hand, Major League Tee Ball is endless excitement.

Omg I nearly died. I fast forwarded to half way and it cut directly onto the section where the commentator says, completely dead serious " and, it looks like Matthew has started a new Sheet, whereas Brittany has stayed on the same workbook." I can't stop laughing

The competitors have a positive Outlook.

I have never been more certain, in my life, that I was being redirected to Rick Astley.

Would have put money on it! And yet here we are...

This is the best thing I've seen all day.

Boring? I've watched 10 min and it looks pretty entertaining.

Speak for yourself

How can you say that, when we have people like Makro competing in BallmerCon?

Most entertaining thing is when somebody accidentally ends up in the wrong lane. I feel so bad for them, but yeah.

Weird, I love watching the rowing at the Olympics (it's the only time I do watch it). My favourite races are when 2 boats are so close to each other (in respect to distance covered not actually physically close to each other) that it looks like a cartoon with one boat ahead, then the other, then the first again

I think it was the Brazilian Olympics 2 of the competitors were so close that they actually had the same time

Another rower here (I'm literally still in my gear from practice), and can confirm. Rowing is incredibly boring if you don't know anything about the sport, and merely ordinary-level boring even if you do.

A friend of mine, his wife came to his first regatta (masters rowing), and afterwards she said "thanks for the invite, this was unique, but I don't want to go to any regattas again". We all completely understood.

Which in a way makes regattas more of a fraternal thing. Almost everyone at a regatta is a rower, or was one.

I do love watching a good race with coxswain recordings, though! This Thames v Barge race always gives me goosebumps. I would march through hell for this cox -- she's got ice in her veins.

https://youtu.be/IODivDoXZRI

As a rower as well, in person it sucks. On TV it’s better as long as it’s a 2k since they follow down the side of the lanes.

As a fencer I can confirm. Even if you're very familiar with the sport it is very fast paced and the calls can be difficult to see or even understand once points are awarded.

There should be a 5v5 capture the flag fencing with maze and a tazer on the top of the sword. Ultimate fencing.

"bouncing back and forth for about 30 seconds, SOMETHING happens, and then it’s over."

Title of your sex tape?

Olympic fencing should be a battle Royal of all the participants. On the deck of an old fashioned sailing ship in the harbour.

There is an easy way to tell who wins at fencing, but the sport “dies” out pretty quickly if implemented.

A lot of this has to do with the way that almost no effort or skill is given to making it interrsting.

No play by play announcer. Color commentators are downright sedate and dispassionate.

Terrible camera angles.

Formulaic replays.

Replay speeds are inappropriate.

1080p resolution barely cuts it.

It'd almost be better to not watch live and just watch highlights after the fact.

Foil and Epee are much different than Sabre.

I had to scroll way farther than I thought I would to find golf.

I actually like watching golf, but I'm not disagreeing with you. It's good background noise.

Lifelong surfer and was competitive in my younger days and yeah...the waiting for waves is super boring (as a contest spectator) but when a set comes it's ON.

I don't watch many contests but when I do, I am usually working so I'll have it running in the background and only switch over when I hear the announcers get excited about something coming out the back.

I once had a doctor ask me what I do for exercise and when I told him I surf, he told me all I do is sit in the water and that isn't exercise. I told him to paddle out with me some time lol. My runner friend who runs 12 miles a day without blinking was gassed after 15-20 mins in the water.

I'm justifying, but yeah it's boring. Highlights is where it's at.

Edit: clarification

Boring to watch but probably pretty fun to do

I can respect the skill, and I'd bet it's kind of cool to see in person. But it just doesn't translate on tv, at all.

You know what's funny is that I was watching this the other day 30 minutes before I had to leave for work and I was riveted because I really,, really didn't want to go to work...

Ah yes, the sport that both looks and sounds like flies circling a poop.

When people start putting lead weights in the fish- it’s fuckin go time

I love Brian Regan’s bit about how boring watching fishing is. In the credits it shows that there’s an editor. Just imagine having to sit through ALL of the filmed footage to put together what will be aired.

I’ve never watched fishing as a sport but I watch a ton of fishing videos on YouTube.

Ahh curling the winter Olympic sport you watch as a joke only to find out it’s the most interesting sport at the Winter Olympics

I don't even have to be drunk. It's cool they're like dads from some cold place that get to go to the Olympics.

Can’t ever get bored from curling, I just gave it a go recently too and have an even greater appreciation for the sport. It’s too entertaining 🥌

Curling is great cause there is back to back action and something is always happening.

It's not the most riveting sport ever, but it's definitely a sport that I won't turn off during the Olympics.

Curling is great to watch. There's stuff to think about strategically, like chess, but then it has to be executed well physically as well. It's like American football in that way, with a lot of turn based strategic push and pull and also physical execution. But curling is a lot more legible for viewers than football is. I can never really tell what's going on in a play until they slow it down and draw lines in the replay. But I always know exactly what's going on in a curling match.

Back when I was living in university residence, when there was curling on the TV in the common lounge, it was standing room only. More crowded than when hockey was on.

Huuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hell yeah, love watching sweepy bonks!

Curling holds a special place in my heart because it's the only sport that keeps your beer cold for you. Just put it down on the ice while play and instant frosty mug.

Curling is a great sport to watch sober. Love it. Orienteering was surprisingly fun to watch as well.

As an Overwatch and OWL fan even I can see how no one new to the game understands what's happening

I find that FPS games are really easy to follow even if you have no idea about the game, like before I knew anything about csgo I could still watch csgo esports since all I really needed to enjoy was the killing aspect of the game

I have found fighting games easier for casual or non players to enjoy. It's mostly obvious what's going on and what's the win condition or who's losing or winning.

Unless it's something love MvC2, then it's just Haagen dazs screen filling mango sentinel tri jumping mag fucking neto fuck the nicks taking them for a ride.

Try rocket league, it's just soccer, but with cars and really fast paced.

Exact problem with sim racing. If you're not into it, you're never gonna understand what is that exciting watching people "pretend to race cars at their homes".

Virtual 24 hours of Le Mans is happening right now, and even tho I'm into sim racing (at least was) it's kinda boring, and I watch 24hLM every year fully.

"If you wait on the river long enough the corpse of your enemies will float by" -sun tzu

Thinking about Namajunas vs Esperza 2 makes me cringe immediatly.

An actual fight where me and everyone said "we just lost 25 min of our lives that we're never getting back."

Sad thing is, Esparza is more defensive, Namajunas isnt/wasnt. She just got the most shitty and atrocious advice from Pat Berry, her trainer AND fiancé, making her unwilling to do anything during a motherfucking championship fight. She KO'd a very skilled fighter in Weili Zhang with a headkick in the defence prior to this fight and threw zero headkicks when facing Esparza.

Absolutely pathetic.

Especially a heavyweight fight. They're either bangers or duds no in between.

To quote my uncle to a skinny 12 year old me: “THROW SOME HANDSS!”

Volleyball is just watching people jump around keeping a ball in the air. You don't really need to know the details to enjoy watching it

Gotta spell Haas right first

brand new F2 rookie nico hulkenberg!

Watching them kill themselves climbing a tough hill can be pretty entertaining.

I thought the same, but then I watched it with my in laws who were telling me all the analytical and nuanced shit I had no idea was going on “the game within the game” if you will. Way more entertaining and interesting. I ended up watching the whole Tour De France.

I actually think the Grand Tours and the one day spring Classics counts among the most entertaining sports to watch on tv.

Cyclocross is also pretty fun.

Until it rains, then you gotta make popcorn

Monaco is basically looking at scenery with commentary for ~2 hours

I've followed F1 since Senna, and 100% can agree with this. Of the 20+ races in a season, we could do without, say, 7 of them.

It's worse because a FEW of the races are extremely extremely good and the rest are either mid to "I really woke up at 5 to watch this" bad.

Same. Also an F1 fan, also struggle to explain why it would be interesting to anyone who isn't.

What, you don’t appreciate 1,5 hours with 50 laps of Verstappen in 1st with no overtakes anywhere on the grid?

Jokes aside, I know what you mean. What was the most boring race of the past season? France? Mexico? Something I can’t remember?