Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams, of nine players each, that take turns batting and fielding. The game proceeds when a player on the fielding team, called the pitcher, throws a ball which a player on the batting team tries to hit with a bat. The objective of the offensive team (batting team) is to hit the ball into the field of play, allowing its players to run the bases, having them advance counter-clockwise around four bases to score what are called “runs”. The objective of the defensive team (fielding team) is to prevent batters from becoming runners, and to prevent runners’ advance around the bases. A run is scored when a runner legally advances around the bases in order and touches home plate (the place where the player started as a batter). The team that scores the most runs by the end of the game is the winner.
Baseball’s origins from various bat-and-ball sports are hard to trace, but it is commonly accepted that it developed in the United States and Canada starting around the 1830s with the US’ first officially recorded game occurring on June 19th, 1846. While the sport is nicknamed “America’s Pastime”, it’s also popular in Latin America and East Asia with a multitude of countries having their own leagues and many of Major League Baseball’s past and present stars coming from around the globe.
Major League Baseball’s lengthy history lends itself to a multitude of topics (racial segregation and the continued discrimination black players faced in the integration-era, Curt Flood sacrificing his career for the players’ right to free-agency, the systemic encouragement of drug abuse from greenies to coke to steroids to opiates all come to mind even before recounting any specific games), since far better writers than me have written exhaustively on those topics and this post is going live for an opening day delayed by labor disputes, I’m going to focus on the recent CBA and the future of the MLBPA in the oldest comment on this post (this is already getting kinda long).
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I don’t like Frostpunk :shrug-outta-hecks:
I was trying to get into it too, but it just kept frustrating me and making me roll my eyes more than feel engaged in a project. I don’t play games much, and even less of this genre, so maybe that’s the problem. Being on PS4 didn’t help - I can feel how better a mouse would have been. I was hoping it would really grab me, but it just felt like a long, ongoing chore, albeit with an intriguing plot with interesting developments.
I beat the original campaign twice a couple years apart and it was fun enough, but it didn’t really have the fun sandboxiness or room to play with creating spaces I like from a citybuilder. I liked having to consider how to arrange my city to best use heat and such, but it wasn’t really necessary to get creative over of the course of the game - or it felt like it wouldn’t really matter if I did.
Good for what it is though.
