Football has four quarters. Strange is right. You have the first two quarters in the first half and the second two quarters in the second half. Basketball has four quarters. Baseball has nine innings.
Catchers catch the ball the pitcher's throwing if the batter doesn't hit it. They don't run out of strikes. It's three strikes and the batter's out. Four balls and you walk to first. Teams rotate offense and defense. Individual players don't just rotate positions. Nine players are on the field for the defense at any one time, but you have a 25-guy bench to pull from for the nine. It's called the outfield because it's not the infield. It's just the distance from the plate. Every inning consists of each team getting a turn at offense--hitting balls and scoring runs--and defense--pitching balls and and either striking players out or tagging them out on base or by catching hits straight up.
And this isn't soccer. You don't just lose teams because you're out. You have the same guys come out for the next inning.
Jesus Christ! It's like listening to a couple of engineers try to talk about deep sea fishing.
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[House has taken about all he can take.]
Football has four quarters. Strange is right. You have the first two quarters in the first half and the second two quarters in the second half. Basketball has four quarters. Baseball has nine innings.
Catchers catch the ball the pitcher's throwing if the batter doesn't hit it. They don't run out of strikes. It's three strikes and the batter's out. Four balls and you walk to first. Teams rotate offense and defense. Individual players don't just rotate positions. Nine players are on the field for the defense at any one time, but you have a 25-guy bench to pull from for the nine. It's called the outfield because it's not the infield. It's just the distance from the plate. Every inning consists of each team getting a turn at offense--hitting balls and scoring runs--and defense--pitching balls and and either striking players out or tagging them out on base or by catching hits straight up.
And this isn't soccer. You don't just lose teams because you're out. You have the same guys come out for the next inning.
Jesus Christ! It's like listening to a couple of engineers try to talk about deep sea fishing.