Hockey vrs baseball for excitement

[Indiana]

Watching paint dry is more exciting than hockey in Toronto.

 

[Garrett]

I think hockey is the most exciting sport in the world... but baseball wins for a simple reason: they have a great playoff system.

The hockey regular season is near meaningless and the best of 7 series go on way too long. They do it to milk more money out of the fans, at the expense of excitement.

 

[Noddy]

I would say Baseball has higher highs and lower lows than hockey. If a great hockey series is an 8/10 for excitement a great baseball series will have sometimes where it is a 4/10 and sometimes when it is a 10/10.

 

[Mr Bret]

I think hockey is the most exciting sport in the world... but baseball wins for a simple reason: they have a great playoff system.

The hockey regular season is near meaningless and the best of 7 series go on way too long. They do it to milk more money out of the fans, at the expense of excitement.

Great points, but they both suffer from the fact that by mid-season, a good number of the teams already know they're not going to make the playoffs. This works particularly against baseball because so few make the playoffs after such a high number of games during the season.

 

[scouser1]

 

[caseyx]

Great points, but they both suffer from the fact that by mid-season, a good number of the teams already know they're not going to make the playoffs. This works particularly against baseball because so few make the playoffs after such a high number of games during the season.

This argument presumes that only point of watching sports is to see your team win a championship and it's all a waste of time if they don't. I thoroughly enjoy watching baseball for its own sake. Sure, its a little more fun and exciting when the stakes are high but even if my team is more or less out of it by mid-season I'll keep watching and I'll be disappointed when the season ends.

The same applies to hockey but I've been watching baseball longer so the attachment is a little stronger.

 

[RemyMartin]

It's exciting if you have money on the game, if not who cares.

 

[jcpro]

I like playing hockey, I don't really care for watching it. It's all puck cycling these days and too efficient defense. And they took hitting out of the game. I put a game on when I have trouble falling asleep. Sort of like NASCAR or F1. I don't find baseball particularly exciting, but it is interesting and entertaining-especially in HD.

 

[onthebottom]

My ranking would be:

College basketball > Soccer > NFL > Baseball > Tennis > Golf > Hockey > Paint Drying > NBA